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Re: Oh dear. I regret to inform you that commit b1308d2c3749cc454f00b70768ee33724d919527 might be unfortunate
- From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt dot com>, GDB <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 01:41:32 -0400
- Subject: Re: Oh dear. I regret to inform you that commit b1308d2c3749cc454f00b70768ee33724d919527 might be unfortunate
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On Thursday, September 07 2017, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>>> This bot is next to useless. I just ignore it.
>>>
>>> This bot shouldn't spam people when the new commit doesn't change
>>> the old error.
>>
>> Personally, I think it is great that we have a buildbot that tests
>> so many configurations and platforms. This is a great tool and
>> while there are issues today, I really don't think we should be
>> ignoring them. The right thing to do was to report/ask here, which
>> led to Sergio immediately jumping on it. Thank you Sergio!
>>
>> This buildbot is really there to help us out discover regressions
>> soon after we commit, when it's easier to investigate and adjust,
>> or revert if necessary. While we get annoyed sometime, it's still
>> going to benefit us all. Let's encourage its improvement, and offer
>> our help to its development team, rather than denigrate it.
>
> Sure.
>
> FWIW, I got another 5 bogus messsages from:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2017-09/msg00070.html
>
> which has nothing to do with GDB build failure. I will put it in
> my spam filter if it doesn't stop.
I'm sorry to hear that. Things should be more stable now. Please let
me know if you still receive wrong e-mails.
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