[webkit-dev] Please avoid rolling out patches speculatively and reland them ASAP if you had to

[Ojan Vafai]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Emil A Eklund <eae at chromium.org> wrote:

> I'll have to disagree with you here.
>
> If the build is broken and the gardener/build cop has a strong reason
> to suspect that it was caused by a specific patch and the author is
> unavailable then rolling that patch out is the right thing to do. It
>

"author is unavailable" is the key statement here. That said, if your
strong reason turned out to be incorrect, you should recommit the patch, no?


> might inconvenience the author but it is the responsibility of the
> author and reviewer to make sure the patch didn't break anything.
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