Re: Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-10-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:58:32PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuyshanw...@gmail.com wrote: Yes.  All it takes is bookmarking the site, checking it whenever there's a release, and reporting any broken examples.  However, nobody is willing to

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, John Mandereau wrote: Le lundi 17 août 2009 à 16:20 -0400, David Raleigh Arnold a écrit : You do a great job summarizing the minor versions of the development versions, but there is nothing in news-gmane-lilypond.devel about stable minor changes. The only

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/8/16 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: (nobody checks the regression tests for each release, for example -- and that's trivially done with a web browser!) As far as I can remember, Stan Sanderson was in charge of the regtest checking (but perhaps this needs to be updated?). That

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:51:40AM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: What I do not understand is how mere bugfixes are irrelevant to the user of stable releases. Seems to me that fixes are the most important factors, if not the only factors, in making a choice of *minor* versions of stable

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-18 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 17 août 2009 à 16:20 -0400, David Raleigh Arnold a écrit : You do a great job summarizing the minor versions of the development versions, but there is nothing in news-gmane-lilypond.devel about stable minor changes. The only changes in stable releases so far have been bugfixes (that

Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-08-17 Thread Michael Käppler
[CC to -devel] (nobody checks the regression tests for each release, for example -- and that's trivially done with a web browser!) That reminds me of an idea I recently had: Wouldn't it be possible to automatically generate a sort of checksum for each regression-test output-file and compare

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-17 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 16 août 2009 à 14:34 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:48:53AM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I don't see any straightforward way of seeing a changelog or anything which tells the differences between minor releases. The git log messages

Re: Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-08-17 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 17. August 2009 16:08:36 schrieb Michael Käppler: [CC to -devel] (nobody checks the regression tests for each release, for example -- and that's trivially done with a web browser!) That reminds me of an idea I recently had: Wouldn't

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-17 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
between minor releases. The git log messages. And the news item and lilypond.org, which is also sent by email to info-lilyp...@gnu.org. There's a NEWS/Changes document that shows any major changes. Other than that, the only location are the git log messages. No, we're not going to add

Re: Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 05:17:08PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Montag, 17. August 2009 16:08:36 schrieb Michael Käppler: (nobody checks the regression tests for each release, for example -- and that's trivially done with a web browser!) That reminds me of an idea I recently

Re: Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-08-17 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Monday, August 17, 2009 10:35 PM On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 05:17:08PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Montag, 17. August 2009 16:08:36 schrieb Michael Käppler: (nobody checks the regression tests for each release, for example -- and that's trivially done with

Re: Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-08-17 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/8/17 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: Yes.  All it takes is bookmarking the site, checking it whenever there's a release, and reporting any broken examples.  However, nobody is willing to commit to do this.  15 minutes whenever there's a release, which happens at most once every

Re: Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:55:37PM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote: 2009/8/17 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: Yes.  All it takes is bookmarking the site, checking it whenever there's a release, and reporting any broken examples.  However, nobody is willing to commit to do this.  15

Re: Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-08-17 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/8/17 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: I think that's normal for a .0 release. I assumed the same, but 2.12.0 has results against 2.11.66 (OK, that didn't officially exist since I made a mistake doing a version bump before 2.12) and 2.11.65. Oh, yet another problem with the lack

Re: Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-08-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Graham Percivalgra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Graham was referring to the fact that nobody seem to bother about looking at those automatically-created regression results before or after a release. Yes.  All it takes is bookmarking the site, checking it

Re: Automatically checking regtests (was: Re: Minor releases?)

2009-08-17 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuyshanw...@gmail.com wrote: Yes.  All it takes is bookmarking the site, checking it whenever there's a release, and reporting any broken examples.  However, nobody is willing to commit to do this.  15 minutes whenever there's a release, which

Minor releases?

2009-08-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
I don't see any straightforward way of seeing a changelog or anything which tells the differences between minor releases. I think I can justify x.x.1 on one machine and x.x.2 on another, but I would like to know what the differences are to avoid open manholes. Is there a CHANGELOG somewhere

Re: Minor releases?

2009-08-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:48:53AM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I don't see any straightforward way of seeing a changelog or anything which tells the differences between minor releases. The git log messages. I think I can justify x.x.1 on one machine and x.x.2 on another, but I would