Re: Cruise Control to mitigate failure in make bootstrap?

[aaditya sood <emacs@sood.net.in>]

Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > I have used this product in one of my day jobs, and it works well.
> >   
> 
> I suspect it works well in a day job environment, when you are working 
> for the same 8 hours a day as the other developers on the project.  I 
> suspect it works less well for Free Software where volunteers might have 
> a haf hour to spare so they fix a bug, don't have time to do a full 
> bootstrap before checking in, then might not see any mail generated 
> because they are offline for the weekend.

I agree. However it would let everyone else know that the trunk is broken, and
someone can take appropriate action. It also allows a trail of known good
checkpoints.

At some point if unit tests are added to emacs they could be run as part of
build, thus giving even more automatic test coverage.

regards
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