Brion Vibber wrote:
> Ultimately, we need to remember what reverting a commit means:
> 
> ** Reverting means we're playing it safe: we are taking a machine in unknown
> condition out of the line of fire and replacing it with a machine in
> known-good condition, so the unknown one can be reexamined safely in
> isolation while the whole assembly line keeps moving. **
> 
> It's not a moral judgment against you when someone marks code as fixme or
> reverts it; it's simple workplace safety.

Often wiki workflow follows code development workflow, but in this case,
code development workflow can take a lesson from the wiki:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discuss_cycle>. :-)

MZMcBride



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