On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Richard Kenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Fundamentally, our philosophy has been to catch errors *before* they get >> into the repository. Sure one day of breaking the trunk isn't so bad, but >> when it breaks it affects hundreds of developers and it adds up. Everyone >> separately either stops and waits, or tracks down which patch it was and >> reverts it so they can continue working. > > An interesting question that I see as relevant here and for which I have no > data is: what percentage of the time does a patch cause an error *only* > in libjava? I think you have to weigh the cost of the build of that > library against the number of bugs that it finds.
Happened to me multiple times. The thing to tackle is to make libjava build more parallel. Richard.
