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From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Fwd: [gentoo-automated-testing] BROKEN: repository became broken!]
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 20:52:08
Message-Id: CAGDaZ_pZzf15DvNFVAS5-yhJKSPJ1Gd_6xZCGGuVt0320vJc+g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Fwd: [gentoo-automated-testing] BROKEN: repository became broken!] by Mike Frysinger
1 I think best of all would be the good discipline not to break the tree in
2 the first place.
3
4 Is this something that Repoman could have caught? If no, should it in the
5 future?
6
7 On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
8
9 > On 03 Feb 2016 22:35, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
10 > > Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2016, 02:33:30 schrieb Mike Frysinger:
11 > > > > I took the liberty of doing (2) and reverted the commit. Not sure why
12 > > > > this needs so much discussion; after all a broken tree is always
13 > > > > suboptimal.
14 > > >
15 > > > unless things are on fire (which i don't think this was), i don't
16 > > > generally clamor for 0-day fixes. if we can find a better fix in
17 > > > a day or so, then i'm happy for that. i dislike repos with history
18 > > > that is just a constant stream of land, revert, land, revert, land.
19 > > >
20 > > > not that i'm saying your revert was wrong ... just airing my
21 > > > general personal preferences.
22 > >
23 > > You're right of course... but there's one thing we have to keep in mind.
24 > >
25 > > We're not running a project were releases are made from the vcs. The vcs
26 > *is*
27 > > the release... and whatever is out there gets pushed to users.
28 > >
29 > > This is why my personal preference is more to revert if I'm not sure
30 > that the
31 > > fix will happen soon.
32 >
33 > which is why you weigh the impact on users. how many people are actually
34 > affected and for how long ? in this case, fairly sure no actual user saw
35 > the failure on their system.
36 > -mike
37 >