On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:10:12PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
--On Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:02 PM +1100 Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So if absolutely anything added to the dev branch must have a vote for before merging back to the stable branch, I stand corrected and will make sure that this won't happen again in the future. I thought that the common sense should be applied when judging what can be backported without the vote.
Heh. The entire reason for the vote is to prevent 'common sense' from interfering with the stability of the tree. -- justin
Bah. That's insanity. A bug fix is a bug fix. We never took votes for bug fixes for 1.3, and I see no reason to start now.
Feature changes? Sure, we voted for those.
Seriously, people. If there is a bug, then it should be fixed no matter where it lies. Sure, there can be some waffling based on *how* a bug is fixed, and hopefully people will know when to ask.
What's the problem with fixing a bug. Really?
We've had problems in the past with folks rewriting major portions of the server to fix relatively insignificant bugs and breaking major function across several releases as a result. The rewrites were generally NOT posted as a patch on the dev list prior to being committed and that is the real problem (ie, I can deal with a patch that is not quite right the first go'round provided folks were give an opportunity to review it before it goes in).
Once code is committed, it is a difficult to get it out without bruising egos and causing waves of bad mojo. Been there, done that and threw away the snow globe.
I am not going to cite examples so don't ask because it's not productive to go digging in the past.
Bill
