Re: [boost] The Release Manager's Point of View

From: K. Noel Belcourt (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-04 19:29:48

Hi Doug,

On Jun 4, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Douglas Gregor wrote:

>
> On Jun 4, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Janek Kozicki wrote:
>
>> Rene Rivera said:     (by the date of Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:42:45  
>> -0500)
>>
>>>> Agreed. Lets build the foundations first.
>>>
>>> Yes. And some of us have been working hard toward that. I've made  
>>> the
>>> changes to the regression scripts to publish test results to
>>> <http://beta.boost.org:8081/>. And Noel is hard at work making it
>>> possible to publish to that server directly from bjam+boost.build,
>>> and
>>> hence making it possible to shorten the testing tool chain.
>>
>> looks really good, congratulations.
>>
>> Are you planning something like "request _this_particular_ test,
>> quick" ?
>
> I would really rather see "someone checked something in, go re-test
> Boost and post the results"
>
> However, re-testing Boost takes a while. Part of this is because
> Boost is big, part of it is because we don't consider the testing
> burden at all.

And part of it is the inability to run tests in parallel.  Anyone  
have a feel for what it would take to support running the tests in  
parallel?

-- Noel