On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:51:13 +0300
"Chady Kassouf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 7/19/07, Eugen Minciu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Stashing it all on a web page means that people will not bother to look
> > > at it.  Sending a built/not built summary to this list means that
> > > people will actually read it.  Stashing the full build logs on the web
> > > is good, it doesn't fill the list with tons of shit no one needs to
> > > look at, and the one or two people that note that their project is not
> > > building know where to find the full build log to investigate further.
> > >
> > Maybe the the full output could be sent to the CVS mailing list. That
> > sounds a bit counterintuitive but if you think about it it's purpose is to
> > alert developers of changes to the codebase. This is somewhat similar.
> 
> 
> Well, not really...
> when information get bigger, you will tend to start skipping it.
> A summary like this is great, cause all you have to do is skim the list for
> ERROR and then you'll know what broke and you go check it out, but trying to
> wade through all the output of a build to find an error is painful.
That's probably true. However it could be shortened a bit. You could have the 
script output something like this:

Build results: 232 passed, 5 failed.
Failing modules: <foo> <bar> <baz> ....
To see a full output of the build script please go to <link here>. Pretty 
please ;)

I think that's short enough not to hurt anyone's eyes.
> 
> 
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