Just a thought. You could also run the regression test automatically after a successful build?
"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > > >Le Vendredi 21 Novembre 2003 19:47, Tom Lane a écrit : > > > > > >>I think the main value of a build farm is that we'd get nearly immediate > >>feedback about the majority of simple porting problems. Your previous > >>arguments that it wouldn't smoke everything out are certainly valid --- > >>but we wouldn't abandon the regression tests just because they don't > >>find everything. Immediate feedback is good because a patch can be > >>fixed while it's still fresh in the author's mind. > >> > >> > > > >Dear friends, > > > >We have a small build farm for pgAdmin covering Win32, FreeBSD and most GNU/ > >Linux systems. See http://www.pgadmin.org/pgadmin3/download.php#snapshots > > > >The advantage are immediate feedback and correction of problems. Also, in a > >release cycle, developers and translators are quite motivated to see their > >work published fast. > > > >Of course, it is always hard to "mesure" the real impact of a build farm. My > >opinion it that it is quite positive, as it helps tighten the links between > >people, which is free software is mostly about. > > > > > > > > Right. But I think we have been talking about using the build farm to do > test builds rather than to provide snapshots. I'd be very wary of > providing arbitrary snapshots of postgres, whereas I'd be prepared to > try a snapshot of pgadmin3 under certain circumstances. (Also, building > your own snapshot of postgres is somewhat easier than building your own > snapshot of pgadmin3). > > cheers > > andrew > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
