On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Marica Tan <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the reasons why it needs to have a previous successful build are: > > 1. to make sure there is a working copy
You don't need to build to have a working copy, just check out. > 2. to make sure we have a successful build before we tag. there is no sense > to release a project if the build failed because the release will fail as > well. There's no relationship between a successful build in the past and a successful release now. A commit in between could have fixed (or broken) the build, giving a different result when you try to release. This feels like an arbitrary restriction that could be removed. -- Wendy
