Re: [boost] question/guidence regarding merge to master

Subject: Re: [boost] question/guidence regarding merge to master
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-01-11 19:12:02

Robert Ramey wrote:
> On 1/11/19 10:25 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> > Andrey Semashev wrote:
> >
> >> One thing is true, though. Develop allows other libraries to be tested 
> >> with your change.
> >
> > Precisely.
>
> It also allows provisional changes in other libraries to affect one's own 
> test results.  This can lead to huge wastes of time trying to find the 
> source of bugs that were "secretly" inserted into your library.

If you don't do integration testing on develop, you'll do it on master, at a 
higher cost, when the "provisional" changes land there.

Or, as they say, if you don't have a test server, you do have a test server, 
you just call it "production".