Pavel, Your idea has sence. But... Are you sure that all the committers has all the mentioned configurations?
SY, Alexey 2006/10/6, Pavel Ozhdikhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello all, This thread is about a way to improve stability in the environment of growing patch flow in Harmony. Originally I though about DRLVM issues but this may be helpful for classlib too. Currenly, before committing a patch a committer checks it on his favorite configurations (I mean architecture, OS and compiler first of all). Another committer checks another patch on a different set of configurations. As a result, though both patches are tested, there is no guarantee that they will work together on any configuration. If we agree on common testing configs we can make sure the Harmony will be stable on at least this set of configurations. This does not mean we won't fix problems on other configurations. The goal is to gain and maintain general stability. Another benefit would be in faster adoption of patches. If contributors could check their patches on the same configs as the committers do, there would be less likely a particular patch is rejected. I propose to work out a set of configs the committers will use to check patches before committing them to SVN. We can start with a few configs defining the platform, OS familly and the compiler used. When we are sure the Harmony is stable we can add more configurations. IMO, it would be reasonable to start with 3 configurations - one configuration for each supported platform, for example: - Windows / IA32 / MSVS .NET 2003 / release - Linux / IA32 / GCC 4.0.3 / release - Linux / EM64T / GCC 4.0.3 / release There may be a contrary point - let's everyone use it's own platform - such way we'll discover bugs earlier. I think this might work good in a smaller project. The Harmony is quite a big child already and trying to kill all the birds we may chase them for ages. I'd be happy if we converge on the set of our primary target configs here. Thank you Pavel Ozhdikhin --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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