From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:41:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v1] Add Travis CI support
Message-ID: <xmqqsi624cs0.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAE5ih7_f8qy9WvmgRUR6-qFwB4WFhZ6Qr5iOpE0YxqJH8AsZyw@mail.gmail.com>

Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> writes:

> From past experience, if it's configured to email people when things
> break, sooner or later it will email the wrong people, probably once
> every few seconds over a weekend.
>
> Automated testing is a Good Thing, but it's still software, so needs
> maintenance or it will break.

That does sound like a valid concern (thanks for education---we
should all learn from others' past experience).  Unless it is just a
"set up and forget" thing, I do not think I'd want to be in charge
of it.

Thanks.