On 17/10/2007, Mikhail Loenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/10/16, Sian January <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Mikhail, > > > > Thanks for clarifying that - I had thought that the development page had > > milestone builds for users and snapshots for developers (or users who > want > > the absolute latest build). Just out of interest, how do you decide > whether > > to promote a snapshot to the download page? > > If the results are not worse than the previous ones > > I'm just a little confused > > about why we have them as well as milestone builds, since we have quite > > frequent milestone releases. I guess I would probably prefer to see > > downloads available for the latest successful build. E.g. if a user > raises > > a bug you would be able to get them to try the latest build if it was > > available to download, and then get them to try the latest again when a > fix > > goes in etc. > > That's right. The question is how we define "successful" build. If it > does not run > "Hello world", is it successful?
I think a "successful" build would at least pass all the Harmony tests (maybe on a subset of platforms). I guess other test suites could be added in if they're passing reliably and they don't take too long, but publishing every build that passes our own test suite would make sense to me, at least to start with. > Thanks, > Mikhail > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Sian > > > > > > On 16/10/2007, Mikhail Loenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The idea is we have snapshots for developers that are provided with > > > the test results > > > and snapshots for users who does not care which to download and need > > > "a snapshot" > > > > > > Download page points to some recent snapshot that is a bit more > stable, > > > while testing page points to snapshots built according to the fixed > > > schedule > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mikhail > > > > > > 2007/10/16, Sian January <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I have just noticed that the latest snapshot available from the > download > > > > page is still r580985 (i.e. M3), but it looks like two snapshots > have > > > been > > > > created since then (see > > > http://people.apache.org/builds/harmony/snapshots/). > > > > Is this a bug in the download page or has something gone wrong when > the > > > new > > > > snapshots were uploaded or built? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Sian > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Unless stated otherwise above: > > > > IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with > number > > > > 741598. > > > > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire > PO6 > > > 3AU > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unless stated otherwise above: > > IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number > > 741598. > > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 > 3AU > > > Thanks, Sian -- Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU
