Now I know that the Windows auto tester result is breaking, and I already posted pull request about it. But there are still not merged few days after posting. That is the reason I have opened this thread.
I think auto tester is very important component for D's promotion. Kenji Hara 2011/11/12 Brad Roberts <bra...@puremagic.com>: > On 11/11/2011 10:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> >> On 11/11/11 12:22 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >>> >>> It usually takes a couple hours to merge a patch, if things go >>> smoothly. Most of that is running the test suite. >> >> That suggests a simple investment of money in bigger iron could have a >> large positive impact on the development pace. This is NOT the time to >> be stingy, as being penny wise now means we're negatively impacting D's >> future - perhaps irreversibly. Walter, I'm ready to pay 50% of whatever >> machine you want to buy. Please contact me for details. >> >> Kenji's post is symptomatic of a problem that I wished we'd have for a >> long time, and that I figured a few months ago it's inevitable: the >> bottleneck is not lack of contributions anymore, it's process and >> logistics. >> >> Walter, we should discuss improving these areas ASAP. >> >>>> Please answer this question, Walter. I'd like to improve the >>>> bottleneck. >>> >>> I'd like to compliment you on how prolific, helpful, and correct your >>> patches have been. Thanks! >> >> I'd like to join Walter, too, but let me also point out that in addition >> to thanking him, we need to *really* answer >> Kenji's question with a concerted course of action. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andrei > > The bigger issue, imho, is Walter's lack of trust in the automated testers. > If they're insufficient, then lets talk about what it will take to make > them sufficient. They can and will keep way ahead of Walter's individual > test runs. Bigger hardware under his desk (or in a closet or in the > basement) is the wrong approach, imho. > > We've got Daniel's pull tester here: http://yebblies.com/results/ > > I'm working on incorporating it in to my system so they're will be more > parallelism (multiple boxes) and multiple platforms (all of them, ideally). > > With trust in the tester, that eliminates hours of time from each pull > request. > _______________________________________________ > dmd-internals mailing list > dmd-internals@puremagic.com > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals > _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list dmd-internals@puremagic.com http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
