Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment: On Mar 23, 2011, at 04:22 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>What does "brown paper bag way" mean? It seems to be some kind of urban >legend at this point. A merge won't magically break all C files and >prevent Python from compiling. Especially if no C files were touched in >the first place! This whole thread came up originally because some folks wanted a smoke test while resolving the merge race window. >If you are confident that you didn't introduce any issue then just >commit your merge and push (or run the tests which are relevant to your >initial commit). A smoke test addresses the confidence issue, while not introducing a longer race window to run the full test suite. >Oh, and again, if some tests are slow on your system, then *please* open >issues about them (and/or investigate *why* they are slow). That's much >better than ignoring/blacklisting them. Sure. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11651> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
