[Libreoffice] About merging and people not paying attention

[Robert Nagy]

On (2011-07-27 20:31), Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:06:06 +0200
> Robert Nagy <robert at openbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > If a patch/merge touches all of the platform files then it should be
> > sent to the developers responsible for that part of the tree directly,
> 
> Completely unworkable for a cws that was open (not integrated) at OOo,
> needed huge rework (endless rebases) to make into a linear patch queue,
> had to migrated over to git and be merged again with master (50KLOC
> change in over 200 dirs and over 100 changesets IIRC). We also discussed
> testbuilding the feature branch on the ESC (I proposed that), but that
> was turned down as it would have bound quite some resources.
> 
> > instead of sending it to the development mailing list which has too
> > many traffic to actually follow (for me at least).
> 
> You are free to do so, but if you do, please dont expect complaining to
> exactly _that_ _list_ where the big, fat warning was posted two days
> before the merge will win you flowers. ;)

I aggree, I will bitch in private next time :)