On Mar 12, 2018, at 16:42, Michael wrote: > On 2018-03-12, at 2:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> >> On Mar 12, 2018, at 16:31, Michael wrote: >>> >>> How about documenting the procedure to submit changes by poll requests, >> >> There's lots of documentation about how to submit a pull request, such as: >> >> https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/ >> >> We also have: >> >> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WorkingWithGit#pr >> >>> and then verify the build bot. >> >> What do you mean? >> >>> (It may exist, but I have never seen it.) > > > I just took a look at all of these: > > https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/ > https://help.github.com/articles/merging-a-pull-request/ > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WorkingWithGit#a3.Publishchanges > > None of them mention the buildbot, the Tarvis system, or how to test to see > if it actually compiled on the buildbot machine.
If you look at our list of pull requests: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pulls You'll see each PR title has a red "X" or a green "√" next to it. That's the indicator of whether Travis built the PR successfully or not. You can click them for more information. A failed Travis CI build does not necessarily mean there is anything wrong with the PR. There are many reasons why a build might fail on Travis but succeed on our buildbot and on user systems. For example, Travis imposes a time limit for jobs; some port builds exceed that time limit.
