Hi,

>> From: Torsten Curdt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>
>> On Wednesday 15 May 2002 12:00, Gerhard Froehlich wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > >I think that we already have this. It is the duty of the
>> > >committer to undertake initial quality control when they
>> > >accept the patch from Bugzilla and prepare for their
>> > >commit. If they do not know anything about the topic, then
>> > >they should not be taking on the patch - let someone else
>> > >do it.
>> >
>> > Who is someone else? Patches in bugzilla are very lonely in
>> > the moment. There are simply not applied. Why? Because there
>> > about 600 classes in Cocoon, about 10 active committers and
>> > nobody feels responsible. It's easy to say, oh I didn't
>> > wrote this code, therefor I can't apply this patch. But
>> > patches like NPE fixes, can be applied by every committer, I
>> > swear!
>>
>> Well, I guess every committer feels responsible for what he is
>> committing.Although this is good this is also the problem.
>>Who can say he is fully aware
>> if the patch does not break anything else... If it's your code - well,
>> then you do know better what he is doing and if it still breaks
something -
>> well, you are the one in charge... That's different when you apply a
patch
>> from someone else...
>>
>> I guess bugfixes are not the problem but larger rewrites and
>>additions...
>>
>> Simple "improvements" can easily break other stuff (as e.g. on of the
>> last esql improvements that took me a couple of hours to fix. No
accusation
>> but a  fact. And you we are all short in time...)
>>
>> Maybe we try too hard to keep HEAD stable?
>>
>> ...but I like a quite stable HEAD so it's easier to type "cvs update"
>> without the fear of breaking your current system ;-)
>>
>> So what to do, what to do... ?
>
>Make and follow a plan:
>
>X:00 - X:19 Read morning emails
>X:20 - X:59 Review a patch
>...
>
>:)

That's it, so simple ... ;-)

Greets
Gerhard

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