Some of the autobuilds I run have problems of some sort. Some are issues with libraries, some with the environment, but they're all legitimate problems that I don't necessarily want to hide (e.g. by disabling certain tests) because then it won't be clear when they're solved. But other people checking the autobuilds for regression errors don't necessarily know that I've already investigated those issues and can waste time investigation whether or not the problem was introduced upstream.
What I propose is to add another variable to the setup file called notes= where the autobuild submitter can add a couple lines of text to give additional information about the build beyond the desc= line. I envision things like "mondocc has no way of disabling warning W9876", or "link failure began with libtool 2.2.6b", or "test case 777 fails due to libssh2 bug #9876543". This would show up near the description at the beginning of the autobuild log. Would anyone find this useful if it were added? >>> Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
