Sam Ruby wrote:
> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>
>> Gump@icarus.apache.org wrote:
>>
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>>> This email is autogenerated from the output from:
>>> <http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2003-03-03/xml-cocoon2.html>
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>>>
>>> Buildfile: build.xml
>>>
>>> BUILD FAILED
>>> Target `gump' does not exist in this project.
>>
>>
>> Damn, forgot to update gump. This nagging thing is really useful :)
>
>
> As you can see from the nag you have seen on the dropping of projects
> provides evidence that you can have e-mails sent to any mailing list
> based on matching a regular expression against the output of any run.
>
> One of my favorites was adding the following to xml-fop:
>
> <regexp pattern="/Fatal error during transformation/"
> to="xalan-dev@xml.apache.org"/>
>
> Xalan has a fairly extensive test suite. Despite this, there was a
> change that caused a problem with one of fop's stylesheets. By
> observing that it worked on one day and failed on the next, the scope of
> potential changes that might have caused this was considerably reduced.
> I was able to narrow this down to a single change without understanding
> anything about the design or implementation of xalan by simply doing cvs
> updates specifying various timestamps and rerunning the build.
>
> Imagine the possibilities of running Forrest on various sites (w/o
> necessarily publishing the output), for no other reason than to see if
> recent changes to cocoon will break something downstream.
Yes, preaching to the converted. I think that Forrestbot can be the only
serious unit test that can be useful to Cocoon.
--
Stefano Mazzocchi <stefano@apache.org>
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate [William of Ockham]
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