Hi Jeff! On 2017-02-08 03:21, Jeff Epler wrote: > You have misinterpreted my remarks. > > I am not against "support[ing] the arm platform".
Yes, my reaction was a little bit hasty. But it has been triggered by the forum post and some other comments on the list.. > My IRC remarks are about the specific situation where the boards that are in > the buildbot "compile farm" are failing (due to age or thermal issues); when > the buildbot builds a specific git ref, if any individual system (OS > distribution × hardware architecture) fails, NONE of the packages are > published > for any distribution or architecture. > > So if 1/3 of the time (or whatever it is) the *spurious* build/test failure > due > to bad hardware (which just happened to be ARM hardware), the best response is > to remove the hardware from the farm until something can be done about it. And yes, in this context and after the third time reading I understand it in the same way. > Jeff > Cheers Matsche -- "In der Wissenschaft siegt nie eine neue Theorie, nur ihre Gegner sterben nach und nach" Max Planck ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
