Re: ideas for auto-processing patches

On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:35 , Richard Troy wrote:

>
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:04:41AM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>>>> Wouldn't there be some value to knowing whether the patch failed
>>>> due to
>>>> bitrot vs it just didn't work on some platforms out of the gate?
>>>
>>> I'm having a hard time figuring out what that value would be. How
>>> would that knowledge affect what's needed to fix the patch?
>>
>> I was thinking that knowing it did work at one time would be
>> useful, but
>> maybe that's not the case...
>>
>
> "Has it ever worked" is the singularly most fundamental technical
> support
> question; yes, it has value.

You'd be able to see whether or not it ever worked by when the patch
first hit the patch farm.

> One question here - rhetorical, perhaps - is; What changed and when?

This is recorded in the current build farm.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net