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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