Comment by micw

8 months ago

I think it's not the one to blame who broke this but those who implemented everything all the time without adding any tests. Xorg has quite a large codebase but almost no automated tests.

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cwillu  8 months ago

So we agree that the maintainer is at fault: he wanted to change things and not have to thoroughly test his changes by doing the boring work of adding test coverage to the modified area.

  • bmacho  8 months ago

    There is no arguing about that, the maintainer made a mistake. (Among other people, and it was insignificant anyway.)

    So now that we agree on this, what now? How exactly does

      > does not give a warm fuzzy feeling about the author of the at-fault patch leading a fork.

    follow? E.g. do you think that none of the Wayland developers ever made any mistakes?