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Subject: Re: [Boost-mpi] [EXTERNAL] master vs develop
From: Alain Miniussi (alain.miniussi_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-11-19 03:20:54


On 19/11/2014 08:57, Alain Miniussi wrote:
> Hi Noel,
>
> Thank for the infos.
> No, I am not familiar with the boost testing pages, could you point
> me to some informations ?
I think I found them:
http://www.boost.org/development/running_regression_tests.html
I'm looking into it.

Thanks
> I was only able to find a mailing list
> (http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-testing).
>
> I guess I can contribute for those two libraries, at least on our
> supported platform (linux/intel).
>
> Thanks
>
> Alain
>
> On 19/11/2014 06:11, Belcourt, Kenneth wrote:
>> Hi Alain,
>>
>> On Nov 18, 2014, at 3:48 AM, Alain Miniussi <alain.miniussi_at_oca.eu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a question regarding:
>>> https://github.com/boostorg/mpi/compare/master...develop
>>> I guess that all the commit, specially the pull requests, listed are
>>> those that made their way to develop but not to master.
>>> What is the protocol/usage for having the stuff on the develop
>>> branch merge onto the master branch ?
>> Generally I’ve been waiting for testing to cycle for a while before
>> merging changes to master.
>>
>>> I guess the stuff on develop is already considered as being
>>> validated in some way, so what is needed for the next step ? does
>>> some testing report need to be produced ? on a specific set of
>>> platform ?
>> Since very few people test Boost MPI on develop or master, I try to
>> be very cautious with commits to develop and merges to master. It’s
>> kinda easy to break things and, given the scarcity of MPI and Graph
>> Parallel testers, I prefer to test the PR’s, develop and master
>> branches on internal resources to ensure I don’t hit any problems
>> before I push them to github.
>>
>> Are you familiar with the Boost testing pages? Can you contribute
>> any testing resouces to specifically test MPI and Graph Parallel?
>>
>>> Also, does everything that is in master supposed to go automagically
>>> in the next release ?
>> Generally yes, everything in master goes into the release, that’s why
>> we’re careful about what ends up in master.
>>
>> — Noel
>>
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>
>

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