Re: GOP-PROP 4: lessons from 2.14

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> We used to have this, but it was rather fragile, so it only caught
>> compilation errors, and no regtest breakage.
>
> Catching compilation (make and make doc) errors, and telling us
> exactly which commits occurred between the last successful build
> and the current failing attempt, would still save on average 5
> hours of developer frustration each month.
> (oh, also running make distcheck)
>
> The sooner we know about breakage, the better.

This was when gub was still in flux, so many compile problems then
were actually caused by gub changes.

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