Re: Bug/problem with 1.6.0 on UnixWare

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 21, 2008, 13:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20080821130816.GB22453@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460808210541lfd7dcaeoea8554a2a76f8825@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:41:07PM +0100, Mike Ralphson wrote:

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> If it's possible, you might want to look at automatically building and
> running the git testsuite on some or all of your SCO etc platforms.
> You're very welcome to push tags describing the state of the build and
> tests to http://repo.or.cz/w/git/gitbuild.git - there's a few scripts
> there in a side branch.

BTW, on my todo list is pushing my tags there. I am building FreeBSD nightly, and I plan to add Solaris 2.8. I just haven't gotten around to making the build work yet...:)

> Personally, I'd like it if Junio could check to see if the 'satellite'
> platforms are happily building and passing the last rc before he tags
> a final release (with no additional code changes in it!), but that may
> be too much of the tail wagging the dog.

I think his procedure is more reactive. He tags 1.6.0-rc*, and he expects us to complain to him if it is broken. The real deficiency here is that the broken platforms were not tested.

-Peff