Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 7 March 2017 at 20:36, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > >> FWIW, +1 on improving matters here. > > +1 also. > > I don't see what's wrong with relying on buildfarm though; testing is > exactly what its there for. > > If we had a two-stage process, where committers can issue "trial > commits" as a way of seeing if the build farm likes things. If they > do, we can push to the main repo.
In perl we do this by having the smoke testers (build farm) pick up branches with a specific prefix (smoke-me/ in our case, typically smoke-me/<username>/<topic>), in addition to the blead (master) and maint-x.y (release) branches. -- "I use RMS as a guide in the same way that a boat captain would use a lighthouse. It's good to know where it is, but you generally don't want to find yourself in the same spot." - Tollef Fog Heen -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
