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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-23 12:12:09


"Douglas Gregor" <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:F9D6DA81-06D9-4948-A685-CF8F4C5A3E0A_at_cs.indiana.edu...
>
> 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 As a guess, 4 days out-of-date might be a good starting point for the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?

Clearing out old submissions seems preferable to me. That solves both the
specific problem I posed, plus keeps the web page more up-to-date. Good
idea!

--Beman


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