whining about tinderbox messages

Alban Hertroys dalroi at solfertje.student.utwente.nl
Mon Aug 18 01:01:55 PDT 2003


On 16 Aug, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH punched keys in this particular order:
> On the other hand, they do let you know (once the tinderbox has stabilized, 
> this being a new setup with the bugs being worked out of it) whether recent 
> -STABLE will build or not, which can be quite useful even for ordinary users 
> of -STABLE.  (You know to hold off on updating if it's failing for your 
> platform(s).)

Maybe you (or who else is responsible) can spare us the false and
the excpected negatives, so that it looks at least like a trustworthy
attempt? I don't consider it wise to send TB messages when you're not
certain whether it is FreeBSD's fault or the tinderbox's.

I also think it would be nicer to send a TB message at the first
breakage, and a "builds again" message once the problems are solved. It
is easier on the users like me, and I'm quite certain it's less
annoying to the developers ("yeah yeah, I know that's broken, I'm
working on it!").

And as a final remark; Could you please limit your opinion to the
technical content, and exclude the people from it (referring to the
subject)? Otherwise you're working to make a "mild annoyance" grow to a
flamewar. And nobody wants that.

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Alban Hertroys                              http://solfertje.student.utwente.nl
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