Re: [boost] A proposal for superproject structure and testing

Subject: Re: [boost] A proposal for superproject structure and testing
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-12 15:32:18

Daniel James wrote:
> > Test runners test all three, in sequence.
>
> I like that this fits our current capabilities. But I worry about the 
> increased demand of running three branches, the tests were already cycling 
> pretty slowly with just two branches. I suppose we wouldn't need to run 
> master until the later stages of a release cycle, which might help.

If test runners don't do a run if there haven't been any new commits to the 
branch, this would hopefully not place much additional strain on the system 
since in this scheme master is updated very occasionally.