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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:43:19 -0500
From: Tim Ellison <t.p.ellison@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [general] define pre-commit testing configs to gain the stability
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Ivan Volosyuk wrote:
> What an interesting discussion! I have just read this out. :)
> 
> IMHO, all of the discussion is focused on the scalability of
> bazar-like development as it exists here in harmony incubator:
> 
> If something wrong is commited, then everyone has broken build or
> something doesn't work. - This is bad. System is badly scalable. What
> can we do here?
> 
> If build is broken, then the cause might be found by someone and
> posted on harmony-dev. - This is good. And it has good scalability :)

Exactly -- we don't expect committers to be infallible or have every
type of machine and OS version that we intend to 'support' (i.e. keep
running), so we cannot have a model that requires such extensive
pre-commit testing.  Of course, we therefore need full community
approval to declare some revision of code stable, but our bazaar-like
diversity is truly an asset.

Regards,
Tim

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Tim Ellison (t.p.ellison@gmail.com)
IBM Java technology centre, UK.


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