[darcs-users] One-day minimum introspection window

[Trent W. Buck]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:46:38AM -0700, zooko wrote:
> What if we made a new buildbot, and whenever anyone submitted a patch to 
> the darcs-devel list, that buildbot would apply that patch against the 
> current trunk, run all the tests, and then obliterate that patch.
>
> I think that would be very cool.

I agree, but I think you're addressing a different issue.

My suggestion is intended to avoid pre-amended cruft accidentally
being applied to unstable, because policy dictates that we can't
obliterate (unpull) patches from there.

Your suggestion (which I support) allows reviewers to automatically
reject any patch that doesn't pass, *without* needing to apply it on
their local machine and wait twenty minutes for the rebuild and tests.

I think these ideas are orthogonal and both could be implemented usefully.