From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-02 10:52:15
"Doug Gregor" <dgregor_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:570B52D0-A9B4-482F-9C1B-35032F884F86_at_osl.iu.edu...
> On May 2, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1. Does anyone could tell me, if I have any code I need to merge?
>
> It will be very easy to tell once we've moved to Subversion... it's
> just a simple "diff" operation between two branches.
Could we run diff for whole tree and create the list of libraries/headers
that need to be merged?
>> 2. How soon "revert" is triggered? I mean, let's say I committed
>> some code
>> that I tested only on compilers I have access to and it fails on
>> others how
>> much time do I have to fix?
>
> I assume Beman will propose something specific. In GCC, when someone
> breaks something significant in the build, two maintainers can agree
> to start a 48-hour reversion counter. If the bug isn't fixed in that
> time, one of the maintainers would revert the patch.
In my experience the regression test response period is MUCH longer.
Gennadiy