Re: Fixing other people's code (was: world broken in vinum (PATCH))

[Matthew Jacob]

Let me add to this:
> opinion:
> 
> If it's really blocking folks because things don't compile, it is always
> acceptable to do what you need to do- the tree should always compile even
> if -current. If the system doesn't boot because of change, then that's an
> obvious one too. If things work differently or not as well, but things
> are more or less working, it's not an emergency, so leave it for the
> author to fix....

...always modulo a short delay (call it a couple of hours) after reporting
the problem... after all, you don't *know* that the update isn't finished
and that other things are coming down the pipe... but a couple of hours
leaves really the most reasonable time for an integration to complete and
the author to have had lunch in between.



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