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

[Oliver Hunt]

On Dec 11, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Peter Kasting <pkasting at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:
> I don't understand why anyone is _speculatively_ rolling out patches.
> 
> You should only be rolling it out if you _know_ the patch is bad.
> 
> Sometimes something bad happens to the tree, the sheriff doesn't know which patch is responsible, and the change authors are not present to ask for help.  In a case like this the sheriff has to either do speculative rollouts or leave the tree broken.
> 
> Ideally, of course, change authors are around when something like this happens.  But maybe the bustage doesn't happen until much later, due to some subtle/latent issue, or maybe the change author is in fact irresponsible.

Or the sheriff could actually see if rolling out a patch locally fixes the problem.  I'm not sure why they're considering "not testing" to be a valid behaviour for someone who is ostensibly meant to be keeping things going in the face of people who aren't testing.


> 
> PK 

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