Re: [boost] Re: Boost to the rescue

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-20 09:42:19

At Wednesday 2005-04-20 02:28, Martin Slater wrote:
>>we went through this once before.  It costs the testers and it's not just 
>>a few seconds (or maybe you don't look at your results to see if 
>>something YOU have done screwed up).
>
>Erm what could I possibly do to screw it up? Since i set it up the initial 
>time I haven't had to touch it at all, it just runs as a scheduled task 
>and all is good. check the regression reports maybe 2/3 times a week to 
>make sure that it hasn't stopped working and monitor the test mailing list 
>to see if anyone raises an issue. If the regression fails or not is of no 
>real concern to me in the sense that its going to make me go and fix 
>things, thats the developers job, testing is just a very small way I can 
>say thank you for the hard work that has gone into the libraries. If there 
>is a problem and for some reason they don't have access to the compiler I 
>test on then at that point I'd be more than happy to work with them to try 
>and solve it.
>
>Or was there something else you were thinking about?

Martin Wille pretty much said it all

>cheers
>
>Martin
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