[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Allow escaped quotes in `quoted' for mat... (and 1 more)

[David Roundy]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:40:33PM +0200, Eric Y. Kow wrote:
> > We don't have a tradition of accepting tests that fail, but it might be a
> > good idea to consider accepting such tests into unstable, and maybe even
> > into the stable repository, if the test reveals a regression that we
> > *really* want fixed in a timely manner.  Although it is sort of scary
> > having any repository that doesn't pass its own tests...
> 
> For the moment, I don't accept these in the repo (although I do welcome
> them and mention them in my Waiting for Code summaries).
> 
> My thinking is that [i] the pref that forces a test when you record is
> probably a good thing (you can also use --no-test) [ii] if we want to
> have that test, we must make sure our own tests pass so that people
> submitting patches know for sure if test failing is their doing or not.
> I basically don't want to scare anybody off from submitting a patch
> because 'Looks like a bad patch to me!'

Yeah, that makes sense.  But if we didn't have your Waiting for Code
summaries, it'd be worth considering.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net
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