Re: [boost] Best way to notify of regresssion test failures?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-22 09:04:49

At 11:03 PM 1/21/2002, Jeremy Siek wrote:
 >
 >Wow, that's pretty darn cool
 >
 >On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Brad King wrote:
 >> Dart supports a "Continuous" build model.  A Dart client machine
 >> configured this way will keep an up-to-date build incrementally 
whenever
 >> changes to CVS are committed.  When an error occurs, email is sent to 
any
 >> author who checked in changes since the previous build (there is a
 >mapping
 >> from cvs username to email address).  Authors will be notified of 
errors
 >> resulting from their changes within a few minutes.

It does mean that developers have to commit changes in a single 
transaction, or run the risk of a partial change breaking much code, and 
causing a flood of regression test emails, even though the rest of the 
change is committed a moment later.  Probably be good if there was a built 
in delay of a few minutes.

That's also a problem with a cron based scheme.

--Beman