Re: [boost] [SVN]Best Practices for developers using SVN

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-03 18:03:00

Michael Marcin wrote:
> Peter Dimov wrote:
>> Martin Wille wrote:
>>> Peter Dimov wrote:
>>>> Another interesting example is adding a new test that exposes an
>>>> existing bug. This test has never passed, but its inclusion is
>>>> prevented by the stability requirement.
>>> No, in this scenario, the bug has been there before. There's no break
>>> of stability if the bug gets indicated by the testing harness from
>>> some point in time on.
>> There is no break in stability, but there is a violation of the stability 
>> requirements, which demand that there should be no test failures on the 
>> stable branch. This prevents the merge of the new test unless the same merge 
>> also contains a fix. 
>>
> 
> So if library A highlights a bug in library B than the author of library 
> A must go and fix the bug in library B and add covering tests even 
> though he isn't the maintainer? This seems like a recipe for subtle bugs 
> and peoples toes getting stepped on.

Not necessarily. However, the maintainer of A would be responsible to
drive the process of fixing B. How the workload is balanced between the
maintainers of A and B, depends no the individual case.

Regards,
m