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From:
Tony Cook
Date:
January 5, 2011 15:10
Subject:
Re: let's be stricted with maint doc changes
Message ID:
20110105230952.GA31767@mars.tony.develop-help.com
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:35:12AM -0500, David Golden wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> > and if any step fails, report back (how?) and flag the commit (how?) as not
> > actually ready.
> 
> maybe cherrymaint needs a "Failed" or "Needs work" status -- meaning
> "approved, but failed to apply".
> 
> I agree with Tux that the last approver shouldn't be expected to do
> the work.  We'll just see things stall at 2 that way.  I think the
> original proposer should be the one to do the work.

There's been times a note would have been useful.

eg. I voted up d9bf0e0 because it fixes a test failure introduced in
30fcd6c (which was already cherry-picked), adding a note for that
would have been useful.

Tony

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