2007/10/17, Sian January <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
I beleive Stepan uses similar criteria: successful is the build which passes some reasonable set of tests. Thanks, Mikhail > > > > > 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 >
