On 4-Sep-09, at 12:55 PM, Chad Woolley wrote:
> However, not fixing the build promptly is a problem, and one of the > reasons I wanted to reinstate notifications to this list. > > On a large/distributed project like Rails - especially one where many > people run the master branch live in their projects - I believe there > are exactly three appropriate responses to a broken build, in order of > decreasing desirability: > > 1. Fix the failing tests, ASAP > 2. Roll back the change which broke the tests, ASAP > 3. Comment/disable the failing tests, ASAP The problem is that, unless I'm mistaken, the majority of the people on this list don't have commit rights, so we're unable to do any of these things ASAP. The value of having the notifications sent out to non committers is quite limited, which is why it would be nice to be able to opt out. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
