On 23 July 2013 08:02, Bináris <wikipo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/7/22 Merlijn van Deen <valhall...@arctus.nl>
>
>>
>> No, if you are member of the +2 group means you can accept and merge any
>> patches. However, you should *not* merge *your own* patches (unless they
>> are trivial updates, such as i18n or family files), so that other people
>> can comment on it before the patch is merged.
>>
>
> By this time, trusted committers could commit ("merge") their
> contributions immediately.
> How often did we have problems because of this?
> Is this limitation a solution for a real problem (if so, it's good), or
> just a new rule to do like MW developers once we are forced to use the same
> infrastructure?
>
It would reduce the number of commits that break things (e.g. the patching
story, unicode output on rewrite that broke some stuff, etc). We are
already doing post-commit review, but pre-commit review means we can give
our users a more stable framework.
Merlijn
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