msi: Implement the DROP TABLE sql command.

[Steven Edwards]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Rob Shearman <robertshearman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't like this idea because of the expression "If you gave an
> infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters they
> would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare." In other
> words, if someone were to just send patches all day to patchwatcher,
> changing one thing at a time until they passed then one would
> eventually get through. However, the result in this case would
> probably not be a quality patch since patchwatcher would not be able
> to catch all possible bugs.
>
> We want to be able to track how many retries a patch has had to go
> through before getting through since the more it had the more bugs it
> is likely to have. Therefore, we want all patchwatcher failures to go
> to a separate mailing list where we can see if a patch is being sent
> repeatedly so that we can email them to say "hey, you may want to take
> a while to rethink this patch or ask for help on wine-devel".

I agree with that. There is no reason why the wine-patches-testing
thing could not be a separate mailing list that we could monitor as
well. I just don't think it would need that high level of attention
like wine-patches because it would be the exception case rather than
the rule (assuming we get winetest passing for most people before they
submit patches), interested parties could review it, albeit less often
and still have the effect of filtering the spam from the main mailing
list.

> James, please note that I'm not accusing you of being one of said
> monkeys, I realise this is an exception :-)

Me either. =) It was just seeing this thread made me think about it
more and it did not seem that we had clear consensus on this issue at
wineconf. In the end it does not matter, Alexandre will decide what
works best for him. I think thats going to end up being some sort of
tagging system like we discussed so that all patches good and bad get
through with review. It would just be nice to have an outside way to
privately send patches to patchwatcher without spamming everyone else.

-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo