On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:42 PM Stas Malyshev <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > The new policy asks the folks submitting patches to split up patches to
> > avoid bad intermediate states ahead of time.
>
> Thank you Tyler for the explanation! Which means this patch needs to be
> split into several patches? Giving the lower limit of the patches, this
> becomes kinda challenging - if this patch becomes, say, three commits,
> using figures from Gergo it is possible to apply it (without blocking
> whole SWAT window) only in ~27% of windows available. Given that many
> people can't use every window for timezone reasons, it may become tricky.
>
> I think we should reconsider how we do both of those things - if we're
> requiring splitting the patches, the limit should be considered
> differently - there's no point of performing the whole cycle of checks
> after merging each component of a multi-component patch, so maybe those
> should be counted differently. Though, of course, merging patches
> separately probably make it slower than before. If we additionally have
> limit of four - which is low even by current historic usage - I am
> concerned this will lead to long wait times and a backlog of patches
> which might then block other work.
>
>

I think we could do 4 "changes" in a SWAT, which could consist of a couple
of
individual commits?

-Chad
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