[Boost-testing] Re: [testing] Buildbot setup status.

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-24 17:44:29

Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Robert Ramey wrote:
>> It looks like it runs even before I finish getting a whole group of changed
>> checked in.
>
> It's on a 10 minute trigger. So it waits for 10 minutes where it hasn't 
> gotten CVS notifications before proceeding. Looks like you had the 
> commits spaced out in 20, or so, minutes.
>
> This is one of those, tweak until we get what's appropriate for Boost 
> development. Should I make that longer? 20, 30, 60 minutes? I don't want 
> to make it feel unresponsive though.

I say keep a short (maybe even shorter!) trigger, and make a "restart
all testing" button available for those rare cases when a developer
knows an outdated and broken state is being tested.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com