On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
In the bug comment about that breakage on Launchpad I already explained that I didn't break Whiteboard (or Whiteboard dialogs to be precise): it was already broken for a very long time. I modified the build system to get rid of link order issues, and a few left-over files re-entered the build. One of those files even contained a syntax error and nobody noticed that. It also had references to nonexistent object members and methods.
Technically that is breaking the build.
You can feel free to do such changes, however in doing so you assume the responsibility of working with others to resolve any issues that arise.
For this specific issue, the bigger problem was that people were affected by this, but initially did not get any response nor support from you on it. Just responding to emails and dropping into the jabber/irc room to talk briefly with those individuals would have gone a long way towards alleviating the problem.