Re: [Boost-testing] Email regression notification improvement?

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-23 11:21:56

On Sep 23, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:

> I like the "Regressions in your Boost libraries..." notification,  
> but wonder
> if it could be modified to ignore regressions for tests that are  
> out of
> date?
>
> For example, the "mslator" HEAD tests haven't run since the 13th,  
> so are
> needlessly bothering people who have fixed regressions since that  
> date.
>
> As a guess, 4 days out-of-date might be a good starting point for the
> cutoff.

This would be great, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. We could  
try to teach the XSLT that generates the e-mail about dates and  
times, probably using the EXSLT date-time extensions. Or, we could  
just have a daemon that clears out old submissions on the MetaComm  
server. Preferences?

     Doug