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Re: Continuous builder up
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> "Daniel Berlin" <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
>
>>> A bi-weekly status report of the patch tracker sent to gcc-patches
>>> would definitively make the list of unreviewed patches more visible. I
>>> believe this may also be a problem for the continuous builder: If
>>> there is no visible feedback from it, that is, if one needs to
>>> actively check its status, then it is likely to be missed/neglected.
>>
>> I did this for about 2 weeks, and was asked privately by a few to stop
>> because they saw it as spam.
>
> Sending those reports to the mailing list was always the main use I
> saw for the patch tracker. I'd like to open this issue up. Who would
> consider those reports to be spam? Who would be opposed to
> reinstating the patch tracker and having it send out notes about
> patches which have not been reviewed?
>
> Back at Cygnus I wrote a script which sent out a daily report for bugs
> which had not been fixed, and I think it was very helpful. A daily
> report is not appropriate here, but I think that a weekly report is.
I'm happy to reinstate the tracker for this purpose if i'm not going
to get yelled at :)