On Feb 6, 2006, at 1:11 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
With all due gratitude to Doug for setting it up, I have a hard time not concluding that there's something wrong with the regression nanny system. The psychological impact seems misdirected. I think the goal is that a sudden crop of failures showing up in my mailbox should be seen as a problem I need to address. Too often, though, there's nothing I can do about such failures and they get ignored. In this case, it's just really annoying. These aren't regressions because Boost.Python never worked with QNX in the past. Why am I getting these reports?
Because QNX is now a release platform, so we need to deal with failures somehow, either by marking them up as known failures or fixing them. I can turn off the part of the regression nanny that e-mails maintainers. That's probably a good idea when we're not near the end of the release cycle. Making the nanny smarter takes more time that I currently have available :( Doug