[darcs-devel] new ideas for dealing with test errors...
Ian Lynagh
igloo at earth.li
Fri Apr 8 05:54:49 PDT 2005
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:35:14AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
>
> So my new plan for handling problems with tests failing is to no longer
> require that the test suite passes before applying patches to
> darcs-unstable. Instead, I plan on setting up a cron job that will run the
> test suite daily, and email me the results if there is a failure. Once
> the cron job is debugged, I then plan on sending the results to
> darcs-devel, rather than just myself, which will make it easier for others
> to commit test fixes.
>
> I'm airing the idea here, since I'm not sure whether hitting the list with
> a big email daily would be polite. I could instead set it up to go to a
> web page or something, but I'd rather it be something that can't easily be
> ignored.
(we're talking about testsuite output rather than patch contents here,
right?)
You could send the last 100 lines or whatever here and a link to the
full thing on the web. Hopefully the just mail would suffice in most
cases.
Thanks
Ian
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