Subject: Re: Re: [ast-developers] AT&T Software Technology ast alpha software download update --------
> Why does it take a *full day* to do that? I'm sometimes amazed where > the time is spend, but please surprise me: Why does it take a day? > Typically for big projects like kernel.org (Linux kernel, which is way > way larger than AST) you stage a patch and kick off the automated > build and test systems to collect feedback from all platforms. That > hardly takes 2-3 hours, but not a day. What often happens is that a change breaks some regression test in one or more architectures and it takes time to understand why which seems to be an unrelated change causes this. This can take hours. David Korn [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
