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

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-07 08:25:48

On Feb 6, 2006, at 1:11 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
> 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?

Because QNX is now a release platform, so we need to deal with  
failures somehow, either by marking them up as known failures or  
fixing them.

I can turn off the part of the regression nanny that e-mails  
maintainers. That's probably a good idea when we're not near the end  
of the release cycle. Making the nanny smarter takes more time that I  
currently have available :(

        Doug