On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Jacob Mandelson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:03:00AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: >> An external contributor was recently surprised that a change tested >> on linux was reverted because it broke the build on windows. >> (His mental model was that linux developers don't have to >> worry about other platforms, that's what windows developers are for.) >> He said that none of the doc at dev.chromium.org covered this, so I had a >> look. >> > > It was more surprised that I was expected to have built chrome at home > under multiple platforms. I think most coders out there don't have > set ups that let them build on all of the three. Requiring that substantially > restricts your contributor pool. It's not an unreasonable policy, but it > is an atypical one, so I think it should be spelled out in the > "contributing" pages.
I don't think you are expected to have built and tested your change on all three platforms. The expectation is that your change will not break any of the three platforms. -scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
