On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Linus Walleij <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My conclusion is that build and boot test systems just don't work in an >> open source environment as no one actively checks the results. Why would >> they - maintainers already have enough to do with reading 6500+ emails a >> month on mailing lists. Why bother going to look at a website as well >> which might give even more work. > > Point taken. I was in a discussion some time back with Greg and some > other people and we concluded that unless the system mails you when > something breaks it won't make a difference. And it mustn't flood you, > just be very precise. > > Actually the autobuilder at kernel.org helped me out but then stopped > building my trees at some point, but that was nice and the same thing > doing boots would be great.
+1 on what has already been stated on this thread; An autobuilder does work if it emails you when something breaks without spamming you. I've also found the 0day build tester actually effective. It has caught things that I've missed and I immediately was able to go an fix. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
