I recognise that this would be an unpopular decision in the Sunday meeting group, so I am grateful for the current reversal, even if eventually we go back to it.
To me even more important then the branch protection being put on, was the summary decision to do it and to back out code that actually didn't break anything already in linuxcnc. Especially since I was in immediate (be it slow - I was at work) communication. >From memory, we have never backout code that wasn't a big mistake. This was not a mistake, a miss-understandment surely. If someone had asked me 'hey this really screwed up some important critical work I need to get in, could we revert those ?' or 'damn sorry I forgot to mention there were a couple other serious problems I didn't notice' I might have had a couple questions but probably would have said sure, with no drama. But to give me vague (code) complaints, berate me, push to the pr branch then close it, then revert the direct push and basically say make a new pr. Well you seemed to have panicked and just fk up my pr branch. Remember I said I would close it. We all have to have some trust here. I don't have admin rights. I trust that those that do, wield them with caution and thoughfulness. In the history of linuxcnc we have had some major mistakes (master pushed to 2.8) a couple times. There were calls for removing push rights from people or branch protection etc. Luckily we had a few people that understood it was an honest mistake and restricting/controlling people is not a good way to get more people to help or current people stay with the project. Make a major mistake and have the devs say ok we can fix it, this is how to make sure it doesn't happen, try not to do that again, then see how much that person feels like this project values the people in it! And you have to trust we are not out there trying to mess things up or don't care about others work. If you look at the comments in the PR I can't see how you could say it was anything but maybe a surprising misunderstandment. Chris ________________________________ From: andy pugh <[email protected]> Sent: September 27, 2026 9:03 PM To: EMC developers <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] branch protection turned on The consensus amongst those in the Sunday meeting was that it's a good idea to have branch protection turned on, but not until everyone has been persuaded. To this end the decision was made to turn it off until there is something approaching consensus on the issue. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
