On 1/6/2013 6:32 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> On 1/6/2013 5:52 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Ideally, yes. In reality, it would probably be a problem. We have plenty of 
>> problems with reviews being a bottleneck
>> already. However, even if no one else reviews your pull requests, simply 
>> going through the process of creating a pull
>> request and letting the pull tester test it will prevent problems involving 
>> files being forgotten or breaking
>> platforms that you don't necessarily test on. And if you _do_ test them all 
>> already, then maybe the pull request will
>> save you some of that effort. But it doesn't seem to be all that uncommon 
>> that you end up having to make commits to
>> unbreak the build because you forgot to commit a file. And using pull 
>> requests would catch all that sort of stuff. It
>> would also make sure that it's all working on machines other than your own. 
>> - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> I test on all platforms here except FreeBSD64. I have a nice build farm in 
> the basement :-)

Costing a lot of time in the process, and still not catching the not infrequent 
failure to remember a file.  Adding
those machines to the tester-farm and using the tester would be a net win for 
all changes.

> Yeah, I forget to push a file once in a while. And then I fix it.

Sometimes a day later, which is highly annoying and completely avoidable.

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