Re: [boost] [Range] Proposal: a sub-maintainer of Boost.Range

Subject: Re: [boost] [Range] Proposal: a sub-maintainer of Boost.Range
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-19 05:38:50

Le 19/12/12 10:17, Nathan Ridge a écrit :
>> However, if I were you, I would wait until some of the test bots cycled, to make sure that nothing is broken - then merge to release.
> I assume I'm supposed to be looking here [1] and here [2]. I have a
> few questions about what I'm seeing:
>
> 1. At [1], I see a number of yellow "fail" boxes. The legend describes
>     this as "failure on a newly added test/compiler". Should I be worried
>     about these?
Yes. It is up to the maintainer to update the 
status/expected_results.xml file to indicate that this is a test running 
correctly, so that a regression is seen red instead of yellow. 
Unfortunately I don't think a lot of maintainers know that an even those 
that know (as me) don't maintain this file.

>
> 2. At [2], I see that Boost.Range has "issues": the 'type_erased' test
>     is failing (in yellow colour) on a number of testers. Looking back
>     at [1], I see those yellow boxes under 'type_erased' and the
>     corresponding testers, but I also see yellow boxes under other tests,
>     which do not show up as issues in [2]. What makes 'type_erased'
>     special that its failure causes an "issue", but not the failure of
>     other tests?
I think this is a summary for some compilers, but I don't know which 
ones and why not all the testers are considered.
> 3. Is there a way to look at older test results, so that I can compare
>     test results from before my commit to test results from after my
>     commit, so that I can see whether my commit specifically broke
>     anything?
No that I know. You can try to see if testers that did a run before your 
commit are working or not.

HTH,
Vicente