CI Testing and failures

From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-04-26 15:17:17

Sometimes CI testing fails because of a bug in a compiler. It is 
possible to designate in a jam file that a particular test should not be 
done for a particular compiler version so that CI testing succeeds, and 
therefore a PR can be more easily merged because the CI tests "succeed". 
But then the fact that the compiler has a bug is masked by such a change 
to the jam file. Is there a solution to such a problem, or maybe this is 
really not a problem at all ? What do others think about this ?