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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
Cc: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>, Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o>, gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] repoman patch for git support (from drobbins)
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:05:39
Message-Id: 492060F5.3040206@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] repoman patch for git support (from drobbins) by Alec Warner
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4 Alec Warner wrote:
5 > [1] I fully support server-side tests but I have low expectations for
6 > their implementation or deployment.
7
8 Why so low? I'm pretty optimistic. ;)
9
10 > Also it stands to reason that
11 > distributed tests scale better in the long run and it is likely that
12 > we could make our local tests run much faster if we dedicated some
13 > developer time to it. I am sensing a possible SOC project here?
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15 The problem with running the tests locally is that our dataset is
16 pretty large and the types of QA tests that it needs are pretty
17 expensive. Given these constraints, it makes more sense to do the
18 tests on a dedicated server than to do it on a client which may have
19 limited resources.
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21 Thanks,
22 Zac
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Re: [gentoo-scm] repoman patch for git support (from drobbins) Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>