[boost] Re: Regression testing and BuildBot discussions

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-21 15:53:42

"Rene Rivera" <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:42681042.2030709_at_redshift-software.com...
> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>>>The rationale behind the "timely" goal is that developers will benefit 
>>>tremendously from faster feedback, both for HEAD and active branches. 
>>>Automating the feedback will free developers from having to track what is 
>>>happening on many different platforms.
>>
>> Will it allow to test against non-HEAD branches? How would it work?
>
> Perhaps the best response to the non-HEAD question is to post the 
> configuration for the bot I'm currently running:
[...]
> As you can see testing on other branches is changing the "branch = HEAD" 
> option above. Not that I've tried this yet :-) So it's likely to have 
> initial problems. For those curious I added the code to the sandbox CVS 
> under boost-sandbox/tools/boostbot/.

Arhh,  I hoped it would allow me to test my staff against development 
branch. Which doesn't seems to be the case since it's buildbot administrator 
who specify branch for whole tree, not a developer in hers Jamfile.

Gennadiy