Re: [boost] Repository Layout (testing the commits)

From: Janek Kozicki (janek_listy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-08 06:27:30

Frank Birbacher said:     (by the date of Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:46:53 +0200)

> Ok. I currently don't know how testing is done exactly, but other
> messages on the list indicated testing each bug fix as it is merged into
> the release branch. This seemed to require building a tarball and giving
> it away for testing. I think this is a process which takes days. So how
> long would it take to include a couple of fixes into the release-fixing
> branch? How much testing is done up to today?

AFAIK the full round of tests on all platforms and compilers (sparc,
msvc, etc...) takes about two weeks. There were many attempts to
speed up this process, but none of them were currently succesfull.

That was As Far As I Know (!) Please somebody correct me, if things
already got better.

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Janek Kozicki                                                         |