We can't have perfect patches and things will break. But have to make sure they get fixed rather sooner than later. Otherwise nothing prevents me from checking a patch and forget about it and block releases until someone else feels to fix it.
On 09/06/2011 01:47 PM, Andrew Bayer wrote: > -1 on saying we can't check in a patch that breaks one of those OSes - the > important thing is that we can't *release* when any of those OSes are > busted. > > A. > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Bruno Mahé <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Given no one has objected to the previous thread, I am calling a vote. >> >> So let's vote on adopting the following set of platforms: >> * Latest released CentOS (currently 6.0) >> * Latest released Ubuntu LTS (currently 10.04) >> * Latest released OpenSUSE (currently 11.4) >> * Latest released Fedora (currently 15) >> >> This means we can't check in any patch that will break any of these OSes. >> It also means we can't upgrade a component of BigTop if that component >> cannot be built or tested on all of these OSes. >> >> >> This does not preclude anyone to add support for or maintain any other >> platform, but this would not be a requirement for BigTop. >> >> >> The vote is open for 72 hours, and is open to anyone on the committers >> or mentors list at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/bigtop.html. >> >> >> Thanks! >> >>
