On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Oliver Hunt <oli...@apple.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 7, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Tony Gentilcore wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Mo, Zhenyao <zhen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Maybe I should complain this in a different threads, but recently the >> commit bot waiting time is way too long. Several times a patch of mine got >> the r+ and cq+ and it landed two days later. This is really frustrating. >> >> I am very tempted to use svn directly to commit patches, but that means >> the patch only gets tested in my local environments. Like one time my patch >> breaks the leopard bot, turns out the failed test is skipped on leopard, >> which is exactly my OS. If I land it through the commit bots, I could >> identify the issue earlier. >> > > I agree they are closely related. A greener tree means a faster commit > queue and a faster commit queue means less people subvert it and break the > tree. The hard problem is figuring out how to fix the incentives so > subverting the queue isn't so desirable. > > > What do you mean by subvert the queue? The commit queue is a tool to > streamline commits from contributors who do not have commit access to the > repository. If you have the ability to commit you should not be using the > commit queue to land your patches. > > That's not my understanding of the commit queue. I use the commit queue to land my patches when possible so that the patch receives further testing before it hits the tree and potentially affects a large number of contributors. Why do you think this is a bad idea? Is this preference codified somewhere (formally or informally)? - James > --Oliver > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >
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