Le Vendredi 21 Novembre 2003 19:47, Tom Lane a Ãcrit : > I think the main value of a build farm is that we'd get nearly immediate > feedback about the majority of simple porting problems. ÂYour previous > arguments that it wouldn't smoke everything out are certainly valid --- > but we wouldn't abandon the regression tests just because they don't > find everything. ÂImmediate feedback is good because a patch can be > fixed while it's still fresh in the author's mind.
Dear friends, We have a small build farm for pgAdmin covering Win32, FreeBSD and most GNU/ Linux systems. See http://www.pgadmin.org/pgadmin3/download.php#snapshots The advantage are immediate feedback and correction of problems. Also, in a release cycle, developers and translators are quite motivated to see their work published fast. Of course, it is always hard to "mesure" the real impact of a build farm. My opinion it that it is quite positive, as it helps tighten the links between people, which is free software is mostly about. Cheers, Jean-Michel Pourà ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
