Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken

[Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>]

On 09/05/14 7:35 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 10 May 2014 00:02, Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com> wrote:
>> On 08/05/14 10:54 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> Ah, bsd-user. Do you actually use it, or is it just
>>> in the default compile that you're running?
>
>> I do not use it personally but it is common sense that commits
>> must not be breaking the build.
>
> I generally agree, but the minor ports (roughly, anything
> not x86 Linux) are inevitably going to get broken from time
> to time, because not everybody has access to all those
> systems to test on. bsd-user is particularly bad because
> it is a large chunk of code only built for BSD and it's
> not really maintained right now. (Hence my interest in
> whether it actually has users or if we're just carrying
> around a big lump of dead weight code.)

This is just excuses and points out poor project process.
There could easily be a staging branch to deal with this.

> If we had a system that automatically tested all pull
> requests on a full set of build systems and mailed the
> list with the results, that would be nice, but we don't...
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>


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