[bind10-dev] policy on reverting changes due to broken builds for too long

[Shane Kerr]

Jeremy,

On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 16:24 -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> If build fails on two or more different platforms (operating systems or 
> architectures) or two or more compilers, and it becomes realized that 
> the fix will take more than three hours, let's revert the commit and 
> have it fixed in a branch.
> 
> So what is needed is a way to get branches tested on the build servers. 
> In the meanwhile, developers may use some of the build servers to verify 
> manually.
> 
> Any comments?

This seems sensible to me.

Note that we should probably have a page on the Trac site describing how
to revert a merge. (I realize it's probably a one-command Git action,
but it won't hurt to write it there, right?)

I think when we revert, we should probably re-open the ticket for the
change too.

Finally, it might be useful if developers could request a build across
our test platforms in advance of merging to master. Is this something
that is easy to do?

--
Sham