The point I'd like to make, is that I'd much rather the whole world stop turning, nothing get merged into master until we sort out the process; rather than allow anything to break master. I'd like for us to adopt a philosophy that "Nothing is worse than breaking Master." Now, that's just me, I welcome counterarguments (and even flames).
Nothing in the process is particularly different at present than in the past. Several unverified PRs came in close together in time. Since each broke the build and were separated over time, the build remained broken for a couple weeks or more.
There is nothing significantly different in the process from when when patches were added in the same manner. Users are simply not acting responsibly right now and are not verifying the changes before committing them (it appears, in cases, that they are not even compiling them!). That behavior has to stop.
We were just luckier in the past and I think people were more careful when they had to work up patches vs. just pushing a button to create a PR. The ease of creating PRs with one finger leads to sloppiness.
Greg
