RE: Proposed branch tag performance patch for feature

[Kelly F. Hickel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Jones [mailto:lawrence.jones@ugs.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:56 PM
> To: Mark D. Baushke
> Cc: Kelly F. Hickel; bug-cvs@nongnu.org
> Subject: Re: Proposed branch tag performance patch for feature
> 
> Mark D. Baushke writes:
> >
> > I'm sending you back the patches that I might
> > consider committing (modulo the ChangeLog entry
> > which I did not touch).
> 
> I strongly object to committing any of this to the stable branch until
> it has been thoroughly tested on feature.  This is a radical change to
> core functionality that is purely an enhancement, not a bug fix, and
has
> very high risk (in my opinion) of breaking something due to a subtle
> nuance that we haven't considered.
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
> What this games needs are negotiated settlements. -- Calvin

Well, I'm not entirely sure how to respond to this.  I certainly never
suggested that it be committed to stable without a patch for feature.  I
also can't fully agree that it's purely an enhancement, in that in our
environment it runs so slowly that if we can't improve the performance
soon, we'll be forced to switch to some other tool, which I really don't
want to do. 

I've gone to a fair amount of effort to follow the requirements for
changes, but at this point, before I spend more time on this I need to
fully understand *exactly* what is required to get these changes
committed. Particularly what is meant by the phrase "thoroughly tested
on feature".

-Kelly Hickel