[boost] [testing] QCC causing huge numbers of failures

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-06 13:11:55

It looks like QCC got added to the regression system and now I am
getting huge regression reports with the Python library failing every
test.  

I'm going to ramble here, because I don't really know what or who to
lash out at ;).  So apologies in advance if it seems like I'm firing
indiscriminately.  I hope we can ultimately make things better.

With all due gratitude to Doug for setting it up, I have a hard time
not concluding that there's something wrong with the regression nanny
system.  The psychological impact seems misdirected.  I think the goal
is that a sudden crop of failures showing up in my mailbox should be
seen as a problem I need to address.  Too often, though, there's
nothing I can do about such failures and they get ignored.  In this
case, it's just really annoying.  These aren't regressions because
Boost.Python never worked with QNX in the past.  Why am I getting
these reports?

Shouldn't whoever enabled these tests have done something to ensure
that they wouldn't cause this to happen to "innocent" developers?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com