Laurent GUERBY <laur...@guerby.net> writes: > Let's imagine we have a reliable tool on a distributed build farm that > accepts set of patches (via mail and web with some authentification) and > does automatic regression testing and report on selected platform. > > This would enable more ambitious in our testing requirements without > having developpers invest in powerful machines to avoid being slowed > down but would GCC developpers go as far as setting a requirement that > patches must be validated by such a tool before commit for example by > giving the URL of the tester result with suitable exceptions for trivial > patches and tester being unavailable or overloaded, etc...?
I think that tool would be very helpful. I think that whether it were a requirement for a patch would depend on how fast it could generate results. Ian
