[Bf-committers] Revising the testbuild branch

[Bastien Montagne]

I’m not happy at all with both the decision and the way it was taken. 
Fyi, I was the one who spent a fair amount of time some months agon 
setting this up, and I think it has proven to be really really useful 
for all wip projects around.

Further more, I do not see any reason to just cut this out out of the 
blue, there was no urgency at all here. And I do not even really 
understand the root of the issue, imho people who are not able to make a 
distinction between builds tagged as 'official' and builds tagged as 
'testbuild' have nothing to do on builder.b.o.

But even though, imho it would have been much nicer to ask to add some 
way to delete testbuilds from the server, again see no urgency at all 
here that could justify this discontinuation.

Adding back build of all branches will just create much much more mess, 
we won’t gain anything. Oh, and people that cannot understand what 
'testbuild' means won’t be able either to distinguish from master and 
branches builds - even less I’d say.

Very disapointed here!
Bastien

Le 11/10/2014 15:59, Ton Roosendaal a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I've asked Sergey to disable the testbuild branch from automatic building.
> This is currently leading to a confusing situation. People have no idea what's the code that is in it. It's even being used to apply patches from the tracker on it. This information is invisible for our website visitors.
>
> Worse is that visitors think it's the official release test build, and not a testing branch for coders only.
>
> We should do this better communicated. Can we just back to the old option that you can build branches?
> This way that branch build gets properly named and timestamped.
>
> The only problem is that too many builds might flood the bot's list of builds. It shouldn't be too hard to make a delete button on that page for old ones (for admins)?
>
> Laters,
>
> -Ton-
>
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