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Re: PSA: glibc buildbot slave up for aarch64
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: nd at arm dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 09:13:36 +0530
- Subject: Re: PSA: glibc buildbot slave up for aarch64
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On Monday 01 May 2017 06:54 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> The concern about technical debt repayment will not be fixed by XFAIL
> management, it will be fixed by each of the senior community members lobbying
> and slowly building back a large community of engaged and interested developers.
> We can't do that if our failure list is large and undocumented (no XFAIL data,
> and no bugs filed).
>
> I don't think any red buildbot will solve this problem, it will only make it
> harder to recruit junior people who don't understand why it's red.
Like I said elsewhere in the thread, I don't disagree with it being a
partial hack to try and get people interested and I've settled for
sending out weekly spam to the list instead.
Siddhesh