On Wednesday 08 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:36:05AM CEST: > > What about creating a separeted tarball for any failed/skipped > > test (maybe in a proper common subdirectory > > `tests/test-suite.dir'), then displaiyng a message which tells > > the user "detailed information about tests' failures are > > available in files saved in `tests/test-suite.dir'; please copy > > this directory to a safe known place, and write to the mailing > > list <[email protected]> for more information regarding how > > to send these information over to package maintainers"? > > Well, as a general rule I think users should keep around their > build directories (unchanged) while issues are being hashed out. > This is nothing that is specific to Automake though. :-) > > If you have to ask one more time for more details anyway, you might > as well make that as specific as possible and ask only for that > which is missing. The only viable alternative I see for avoiding > the extra round trip is getting users to upload such tarballs to a > binary post site, of which I don't know any specifically free > ones, so I'm not sure promoting such is a good idea for a GNU > package. OK, agreed (well, at least as long as we lack a GNU-maintained binary post site ;-)
Now I just have to train myself to ask the users to send all relevant details (if needed) in my *first* answer to their reports ;-) Regards, Stefano
