<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br>On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Robert Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertc@robertcollins.net" target="_blank">robertc@robertcollins.net</a>></span> wrote: - Stable branch maintenance becoming harder.<br>
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The set of proposals being made to tackle this are:<br>
- Set a much harder upper bound on commit size - we were saying 500<br>
lines, but the recent research paper suggests that saying 200 lines as<br>
target, with rubber band permitting up to 400 lines before we push<br>
back really hard.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 <br><br>Though I think we probably could do with some better tools or tool improvements <br>so we handle reviews of long series of dependent changesets better. As at least in my experience, patches<br>
</div><div>in a dependent series tend to get reviewed a bit randomly and review effort is effectively lost on the later<br></div><div>changesets when the inevitable rebase is required.<br></div><div> <br></div><div>Chris<br>
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