I realized  that this wasn't CC'd here, and thought it should. Should we
discuss ways to make sure all the smokers don't report issues that are known? 

Cheers,
Kevin

----- Forwarded message from Kevin Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:26:07AM +0100, H.Merijn Brand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed 
forth:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:52:46 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > This is a build failure report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> > generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.0.
> > 
> > Daily build and smoke test by smokingjacket v0.01.
> > 
> > Failed Test    Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > lib/db-btree.t       255 65280   157   14   8.92%  27-29, 48-49, 149-157
> > lib/db-hash.t         79 20224   111   90  81.08%  22-111
> > lib/db-recno.t       255 65280   128   11   8.59%  49, 51, 53, 55, 69, 75, 78, 125-
> 
> Is it wrong to presume that people/builders/testers/smokers building bleadperl
> *ALSO* /read/ p5p?

No (and I do read p5p). 

> 
> Why is it that if Jarkko /explicitly/ tells that db-* fails with the latest
> tarball that bug reports keep streaming in which report exactly what was
> announced to fail?

Because smokingjacket does not look to see if what things fail on have already
been reported. A smoker doesn't manually report the bug. As well, this is from
an rsync of perl-current, not the tarball. I understand your pain, though :)


> 
> A PLEA TO ALL:
> 
> *READ* what Jarkko writes as comments with the latest tarballs and *DO NOT*
> report bugs that are announced, in order to prevent the perlbug database to
> flood with duplicates that are *known* in advance.

Maybe we need (as has been brought up) somewhere else to put the smoking
results. I could see how if there are 100 smokers, that getting an announces
bug reported 100 extra times would be very bad. 

> 
> Kevin, this is nothing personal, but you are number X to report the same
> announced bug.

Nothing taken personally :) I, for now, have taken the smokejacket script out
of cron until a concensus has been made to how the bugs should be reported.


Cheers,
Kevin

> 
> -- 
> H.Merijn Brand           Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://www.amsterdam.pm.org/)
> using perl-5.005.03, 5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.7.1 & 623 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2
>    AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11 often with Tk800.022 &/| DBD-Unify
> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/
> 

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        -- Frank Zappa

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