Moving to mobile-l.

On Friday, June 12, 2015, Sam Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey web slingers,
>
> If there is a regression introduced by a patch, then please revert that
> patch as soon as you've identified it and let the team know via
> Phabricator, email, or both. Reverting the commit will often be cheaper to
> do than fixing the regression in a follow-on patch, but there'll
> undoubtedly be exceptions, which we'll deal with (and learn from) as a team.
>
> Fixing the regression in a follow-on patch means that:
>
>    - *master won't be deployable* until the patch has been reviewed,
>    tested, and merged, which should be communicated to the Release Engineering
>    team
>    - reviewers might have to drop what they're working on in order to get
>    it reviewed
>       - what if the original patch was lower priority?
>       - we should be cognisant of the cost of context switching
>    - the commit history will be dirty
>
> *Master should always be depoyable.*
>
> –Sam
>
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