2006/10/16, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Mikhail Loenko wrote: > 2006/10/16, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Mikhail Loenko wrote: >> > When we bring new platforms how will we make sure that a patch for some >> > rare platform would not break another one? >> >> Beyond sniffing the patch to ensure it looks reasonable, the best a >> committer can do is to test it on the platforms he or she has available. >> After that we rely on the diversity of the community building and >> testing the code to catch any problems; i.e. the change doesn't >> necessarily end with the commit, it may still have to be backed out. > And the hope is that we'll have the project's CI system running on lots of places. > How will we define which changes should be backed out? > Do you mean that we first define list of "supported" platforms > and then we will roll back all the changes that reportedly break > build on one of that platform? Yes - I think that we'll eventually get to that state formally, and we're there now informally. I suspect that a change to support IPF that broke x86 would be backed out w/o a complaint :) > > What would be the procedure to add a new platform to the list of > supported ones? (Well I assume it's a vote, but what are the criteria > to be used in that vote?) I think that having "criteria" for use in a vote misses the point - because otherwise we'd determine based on the criteria and not need to vote.
So, you mean that criteria is judgement? ;) Somehow it works... Thanks, Mikhail
I think that it will be based on having people interested in working on it and size of user population. If we decide that we're going to support a platform, it's a lot of work we're taking on.... geir > > Thanks, > Mikhail > >> >> There is no guarantee of the stability of HEAD, we only get that by >> taking a snapshot and everyone testing it with all platforms (c.f. say >> Eclipse that does have a centralized build system). >> >> Regards, >> Tim >> >> -- >> >> Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> IBM Java technology centre, UK. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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