Re: [tools-dev] Comments on Mathias blog post about contributing

2009-09-22 Thread Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Mathias, > Really, this part of the work is superfluous. IMHO tests that are known > to be broken in a particular milestone should be skipped in a CWS based > on it also. Don't think this is a good idea, since a test can be broken in different ways. For instance, if your test checks 10 aspects

Re: [tools-dev] Comments on Mathias blog post about contributing

2009-09-22 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi Sophie, thank you for your comments. I'm glad to get feedback from "non code hackers" also as I'm hoping to make life easier for them also. I will add your points to my list. Let me give some immediate answers to some of your points. I will come back if I can say to one of the other points I h

Re: [tools-dev] Comments on Mathias blog post about contributing

2009-09-22 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 20:15 +0200, Sophie wrote: > - Not enough bots or optimized builds bots to have more capacity for > building install sets. This was particularly miserable coming up to the feature freeze. I think there were 80+ hour waiting times on builds on the solitary windows bot :-( >

Re: [tools-dev] Comments on Mathias blog post about contributing

2009-09-22 Thread Bernd Eilers
Sophie wrote: Hi Mathias, all, Hi Sophie, [...snip...] Also I'm not sure that what you (Sun) see is what I (community) see, we do not have access to the same interfaces. Well basically the interfaces are the same where possible with only a few exceptions. In EIS only the descriptio