Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:24:08 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
<flameeyes@gentoo.org> wrote:
| I think that doing something like that, surely will increase safety,
| but will  also drive gentoo out of the world.
| 
| We have already too many packages which needs maintainers, and having
| to  double-check every commit can be very very slow, because if
| there's too few  people doing the second check, the bottleneck will
| stop everything being  fixed, changed, updated.

If it were implemented with CVS, then yes, because it'd be unusably
slow. With SVN, doing a branch merge for approval is extremely fast. And
your mentor is already checking all your commits, right? They're
supposed to do that for the first month or so (depending upon how long
it is before it becomes obvious that you're safe). A branch is just the
same, but without the added hazard of having commits going straight to
the live tree.

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