2006/10/16, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> 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 :)
Yes, and we've seen that working in practice.
>> 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.
>
> 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....
Exactly. Even for esoteric platforms if we can make it work we should
do so -- i.e. it would always be preferable to move forward by fixing
the code for all platforms than backing out.
This is a problem we don't have at the moment, so I'm not convinced it
is worth hypothesizing a solution.
Isn't it time to define the official set of supported platforms? ;)
Thanks,
Mikhail
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]
