[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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