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[Didier Roche <didier.roche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 07/01/2013 16:21, Ted Gould a écrit :
> I think that's the issue, you should be saying "We need to fix bug 
> 1234" not "Trunk was known broken, why aren't you focusing on my 
> problem RIGHT NOW."  There might be other, higher priority work being 
> done.  Or perhaps people are in the middle of longer term tasks that 
> they need to complete.  Asking for the bug to prioritized to the next 
> possible slot is a reasonable request, saying that development should 
> have stopped is not.  It is reasonable to not fix bugs immediately, 
> and do other work first in many cases even if that makes some options 
> for fixing them more expensive (reverting is harder the longer you wait).

So, in that case, if a commit introduced a regression (regression being 
maybe that we can't build in the next day trunks), then we revert the 
guilty change. So reverting right away to not have this "reverting is 
harder later on".