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Re: bypassing the patch countdown


From: Thomas Morley
Subject: Re: bypassing the patch countdown
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 00:04:40 +0100

2016-12-07 23:58 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
>
>
> Am 7. Dezember 2016 23:34:39 MEZ, schrieb Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
>>I was going to wait a month or two before suggesting this, just to
>>make sure I was fully "up to date", but I'll jump in now.
>>
>>We instituted the policy of patch countdowns and Patchy after the
>>lengthy wait for 2.14.0, which was due to a large number of
>>regression bugs due to patches which either broke the compile, or
>>broke previously-working output.
>>
>>However, even after that, I still pushed some commits directly to
>>staging, bypassing the countdown.  Obviously I did this for
>>updating the VERSION when making a release, but I also did it for
>>a few typo fixes as well.
>>
>>Is this still an accepted practice?  If not, I suggest that it
>>should be.  If I had to formalize it, I'd say something like "if
>>two developers with push ability agree that a fix is trivial and
>>obvious, it can go straight to staging".
>>
>
> Yes, this is still common practice.
> Developers can and do take this liberty occasionally.

Indeed.

> An alternative giving some extra safety is to upload a patch and wait for the 
> first automated tests before pushing to staging.

That's how I personally do it, even for most trivial patches.
(It's too asy to delete a bracket or something else by accident, not
noticing it.)

Cheers,
  Harm

>
> In the current case the point is not that it would take a significant  effort 
> to update the news but rather that it's not woth touching at all, given the 
> temporary nature of the information.
>
> Urs
>
>>
>>(please note that I'm not suggesting that anybody should feel
>>obligated to make such typo fixes -- instead, I'm checking that
>>the "door is open".  So that if we manage to get 1 or 2 users who
>>are able to fix typos, and those fixes are very obvious, they
>>wouldn't need to wait 2-4 days.  In this case, the "two
>>developers" would be "1 mentor, and the release or patch
>>meister".)
>>
>>Cheers,
>>- Graham
>>
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