>>> that with some discipline, those cases will appear infrequently, though as
 >>> a gate policy, I think that we should work gently towards one changeset <->
 >>> one bug slowly
 >> 
 >> Please no.  This would be a disastrous drain on productivity.
 > 
 > I concur.
 > 
 > Currently, an engineer working on a change will often address one or
 > more other minor CRs in the same files.  The incremental cost of these
 > additional fixes is reduced to extra edits, the additional tests, and
 > the bookkeeping for the bugs, with no extra builds, no extra downloads,
 > no overhead in resolving problems found in tests or bringover/pull
 > conflicts.  The one changeset == one bug discipline eliminates such
 > economies of effort.

Exactly -- and sometimes testing comes for free as well.  If anything,
we should be going in the other direction, finding ways to *encourage*
developers to throw in some additional bugfixes while they're "in the
neighborhood" -- and making the cost of doing so as minimal as possible.

-- 
meem
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