Re: automated testing comment [Re: time to workaround libc/13097 in fsf gdb?]

Andreas Arnez
2014-09-25T07:11:15Z

On Wed, Sep 24 2014, Ulrich Weigand wrote:

> Andreas Arnez wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 23 2014, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>
>> > I think it'd be fine to send the periodic email results/alerts/whatever to:
>> >
>> > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-testresults/
>> >
>> > That list hasn't been active in a while, but it's still alive, afaics,
>> > and the point of that list was to collect auto testers' test results.
>>
>> Interesting. Even before I started working on GDB, Andreas Krebbel had
>> set up a bot that sends test results to a different list, and we're
>> still continuing to do so:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-testers/
>>
>> Knowing now that there's also gdb-testresults, I wonder whether that
>> ever was a good choice. We could certainly change that, so gdb-testers
>> is freed up for discussions like this one ;-)
>
> Well, I guess that would be because the main web page:
> https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/mailing-lists/
> says:
>
> gdb-testers
> is a list for the announcement of development snapshots and the reporting of test results.
>
> and does not mention gdb-testresults at all.

Right, I also noticed that gdb-testers is mirrored by Gmane (as
comp.gdb.testing) and gdb-testresults is not. I'm puzzled why
gdb-testresults was ever created...

> I think we should agree on one of them, and document it on the web page.

For instance by leaving everything as-is? Or maybe, for clarity, we
should at least drop the obsolete "announcement of development
snapshots" from the list description?