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> Bit of a chicken/egg issue here. Since we haven't had OS X buildbots
> for very long, and the ones we do have represent odd configurations,
> I think it's premature to say that "the port *doesn't* pass the test
> suite on a regular manner".
And I didn't mean that literally. Rather, I meant "the build slave that
you are proposing to add to the stable list don't pass the test suite on
a regular manner" - it's ultimately the individual slave (OS, compiler
installation, buildbot version, network connectivity) that can be
questioned for stability.
So that's not really a chicken-and-egg problem. If people keep working
on the OSX port, they might ultimately arrive in a state where even the
odd configurations become stable.
> I think it's just as reasonable to say
> that the developers making changes just aren't aware of bad
> side-effects on OS X. A good way to remedy that would be to make
> those bad side-effects more apparent, for example by adding an OS X
> buildbot into the "stable" set.
I am not convinced that this is a good way. First, they are all
volunteers, so they chose to do whatever they like to do. Then, even if
they *are* willing to fix OSX problems, they might never look at the
buildbot results. So any estimation of the effect that the proposed
change might have is pure guessing. |
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2010-06-23 18:38:59 | loewis | set | recipients:
+ loewis, ronaldoussoren, janssen, eric.araujo, l0nwlf |
2010-06-23 18:38:58 | loewis | link | issue9048 messages |
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