Eric Niebler <eric <at> boostpro.com> writes:
On 10/4/2011 11:26 AM, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com> writes:
Surely if you'd run the whole boost regression suite on your local machine before and after your changes, you'd have seen the differences, no?
No, I can't. I have limited time I can spend working on boost development. I cannot wait hours for full regression test to finish even once, not mention twice. I expect regression test system to deal with this. I resolving issues once I observe them online. I do run my own regression tests and they pass.
This is an unfortunate attitude, Gennadiy. As a maintainer of a critical piece of boost infrastructure, you have a greater responsibility than most to keep things in the green.
I make my changes when I have time to look at regression test reports and fix regressions if any. Usually (unless I am doing some major changes) there are few and these goes unnoticed. This time I wanted to remove some long deprecated symbols. I might have handled that better admittedly.
Have you considered taking on an assistant maintainer who can help you test changes against trunk?
I don't mind help, if anyone volunteering, but not sure how much it would help with new development. I would still need to run full regression test on all platforms for every commit, don't I? Gennadiy