Re: testsuite results from master

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Sunday 14 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Stefano,
> 
> I think it is time to reevaluate some of the work that has been done in
> the last few weeks.
Do you mean "go and fix the newly introduced regressions before doing
other testsuite work", or "reconsider the advisability of doing testsuite
work in master and/or to have a 72-hours gracetime"?  If you mean the
former, then I agree.

> I'd like to ask you to postpone pushes of pending stuff that has
> a clock ticking,
There's just two of those, so it's not a problem.

> and look at the lots of new failures
Which of those failures are really new?  Some of them involve test
scripts and automake features unmodified by quite a long time.

> that a testsuite run shows on a few hosts; you can find them in some
> minutes on <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/>.
That's useful.  Thanks.
 
> I might be responsible for some of the failures too, but I think it's
> fair to guess that your patches are responsible for at least some of
> these.  ;-)

See my other answers to this thread for more information and questions.

Regards,
   Stefano