I broke the build!

[wshaffer]

Yes, I have achieved a rite of passage for anyone who works in a software development organization: I broke the build. I checked in a new version of the online Help, and now the code won't compile. There's possibly a score of programmers who are twiddling their thumbs waiting for me to get the fix in. (So, why am I on LJ? My Help is compiling. Nothing I can do until it's done.)

It's really quite a special feeling.

Now I need to develop an appropriate pre-checkin test to prevent this from happening again.

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Congratulations indeed!

That's like that Dyson vacuum-cleaner commercial where Dyson was saying that failures are quite as exciting as successes, because they point one towards the right direction, or open up new avenues.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Leave it to a vacuum-cleaner manufacturer to point out that failures don't always suck! (groan)

The most immediate new avenue is that I get to learn how to compile the piece of software that I broke, so that I can compile it myself as a test. This opens up all kinds of avenues...