Please test your commits

Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen at missouri.edu
Sun Feb 12 20:45:58 UTC 2012


On 02/12/2012 02:41 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:27:25PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 12/02/2012 22:16 Steve Kargl said the following:
>>> You seem to have the faulty belief that this is the first occurence
>>> of this type of issue?
>>
>> So instead of proper report to the port's maintainer (including description of
>> your environment, possibly full build log, etc), possibly with a CC here, you
>> decided to vent out here...
>>
>> Is there any requirement that people do the former and not the latter? :-)
>>
>
> I'm not venting.  I'm simply requesting that all committers
> test the code that they intend to commit.  It is quite
> clear that this particular commit was not tested.
>
> The environment is irrelevant because malloc.h was poisoned
> 10 years, 3 months ago.  As to a full build log, the
> necessary information was included in my original email.

Except I didn't get the malloc.h error when I tried compiling it.  So 
merely noting the age of malloc.h doesn't prove that the committer 
didn't test it.



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