On 16/03/15 10:48, Andrea Aime wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> On 16/03/15 08:55, Andrea Aime wrote:
>>> * GeoTools is a stand alone project, demanding people that are not
>>> interested in GeoServer to also build GeoServer is wrong
>> But projects that care about their users should at least keep an eye on
>> known downstream builds and fix failures with alacrity. Especially when the
>> developer is on the committees of both projects. And especially especially
>> when tampering with ContentDataStore.
> Yes... that makes sense when we have a committer working in both projects.
> I'm just saying we cannot ask a GeoServer build to the random GeoTools
> contributor.

Agreed. But feel free to conscript a PMC member to perform a test build 
if you suspect that a change might affect a downstream. You can do the 
thinking and delegate the donkey work.  :-)

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
Software Engineer
Transient Software <http://transient.nz>
New Zealand

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