Conor writes:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > Yep, | > | > Gump help alerts the developers to the issue. | > | > But, how many people will use JDOM? It'd be better if API breakages were | > reported as a group, rather than each group needing to | > discover/report/troubleshoot them. | > | > And it would be nice if Gump could, on request, report the breakage to the | > component being used, rather than a developer needing to sign up on the | > mailing lists. | | | Do you mean reproting the error to the dependency which introduce the problem? I Not automatically, on request. | wonder how feasible it would be and how many false positives it would generate. Hopefully, as many as it currently does via the wetware method :) | Determining the root cause of a breakage is probably going to remain a wetware | task at the point the breakage manifests itself. And I'm not advocating changing that.... | How would you determine to which dependency a failure is to be attributed, if | indeed it is not a bug in the project itself? The recent Latka DTD problem could | have had a number of causes | 1. A change in Xerces making the DTD appear bad | 2. A change in Ant causing the style task to encounter some fatal exception | 3. A change in the DTD itself | 4. A change in the external Gump environment (OS, network, etc). | | It usually requires detailed analysis to uncover the root cause. At which point, if gump had an 'report bug' url template associated with the project, a developer could request a gump bug report gets sent to the offending project. It means I personally don't have to go see if they're using Bugzilla or Scarab or Stomp or whatever as they're bug tracking system, and file a report with the gump run details. All the info is help by gump. It's a 'service' gump could provide by tracking/adding bug submission details to the project definition. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Work: http://www.multitask.com.au Developers: http://adslgateway.multitask.com.au/developers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
