Re: testing 2010-12-10 (wiki, results, bluez-libs)

From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: testing 2010-12-10 (wiki, results, bluez-libs)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:55:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101216155527.GC22134@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimuRa8EC=U_CvgiZV1tWySg_AQTwWBQTxdpv7Zn@mail.gmail.com>

On (16/12/10 08:33), Cliff Brake wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com> wrote:
> > On 12/15/2010 12:51 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I just wanted to update the testing table with my entries and I
> >> noticed two (possibly related) things.
> >> - no other entries for 2010-12-10 are there yet (and it is already
> >> wednesday)
> >
> > I haven't updated the stuff we're building since just about everything
> > failed due to the gcc issue Khem fixed in
> > 2c8570552549da2e11428d08b2bc08849cac39b1.  This is why I sometimes wonder if
> > it would be desirable to cherry-pick a few things in to the testing-next
> > branch.
> 
> One of my concerns is coordinating with all the people doing testing
> if we start committing to the testing-next branch.  How do we know who
> restarted builds, etc.  I guess we could assume the cherry-picked
> changes would be minor enough that people who have already finished
> builds would not need to re-build.

yeah without autobuilder which triggers a build on everycommit 
its hard

> 
> At this point I'm just more inclined if the weekly testing branch
> crashes and burns horribly to just throw away that week, and focus on
> getting things fixed in the master for next week.  Its not perfect,
> but with so many people participating, it seems like we need to keep
> it as simple as possible.  But, keep the ideas flowing, and perhaps
> something better will emerge.

I think the current method is good. What I do is if I see a problem
in the testing then I fix it there locally and keep going with build to
find more and apply the patch to master
for next cycle so far it has worked well.

> 
> Thanks,
> Cliff
> 
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