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Re: Oh dear. I regret to inform you that commit b1308d2c3749cc454f00b70768ee33724d919527 might be unfortunate
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt dot com>, gdb-buildbot at sergiodj dot net, GDB <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 19:09:54 -0700
- Subject: Re: Oh dear. I regret to inform you that commit b1308d2c3749cc454f00b70768ee33724d919527 might be unfortunate
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On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> This bot is next to useless. I just ignore it.
>>
>> This bot shouldn't spam people when the new commit doesn't change
>> the old error.
>
> Personally, I think it is great that we have a buildbot that tests
> so many configurations and platforms. This is a great tool and
> while there are issues today, I really don't think we should be
> ignoring them. The right thing to do was to report/ask here, which
> led to Sergio immediately jumping on it. Thank you Sergio!
>
> This buildbot is really there to help us out discover regressions
> soon after we commit, when it's easier to investigate and adjust,
> or revert if necessary. While we get annoyed sometime, it's still
> going to benefit us all. Let's encourage its improvement, and offer
> our help to its development team, rather than denigrate it.
Sure.
FWIW, I got another 5 bogus messsages from:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2017-09/msg00070.html
which has nothing to do with GDB build failure. I will put it in
my spam filter if it doesn't stop.
--
H.J.