Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-db-derby-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 8873 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2006 20:01:41 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 19 Jan 2006 20:01:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 46518 invoked by uid 500); 19 Jan 2006 20:00:59 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-db-derby-dev-archive@db.apache.org Received: (qmail 46449 invoked by uid 500); 19 Jan 2006 20:00:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact derby-dev-help@db.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: Delivered-To: mailing list derby-dev@db.apache.org Received: (qmail 46434 invoked by uid 99); 19 Jan 2006 20:00:59 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:00:59 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (asf.osuosl.org: local policy) Received: from [68.142.198.206] (HELO smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (68.142.198.206) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:00:58 -0800 Received: (qmail 39443 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2006 19:55:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (ddebrunner@sbcglobal.net@71.132.5.173 with plain) by smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2006 19:55:50 -0000 Message-ID: <43CFEEB8.2080800@apache.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:55:36 -0800 From: Daniel John Debrunner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: derby-dev@db.apache.org Subject: Re: Cleaning up test failures References: <43CFC310.6090300@sun.com> <43CFEB9D.5080804@Sourcery.Org> In-Reply-To: <43CFEB9D.5080804@Sourcery.Org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Satheesh Bandaram wrote: > Good writeup. How do we address issue of platform specific failures? I > don't have access to SunOS or CYGWIN platforms, so I may not be able to > fix problems on those platforms. In my opinion that's the itch of anyone who cares about that specific platform. If a contributor has done a best effort to write platform independent code and the tests pass for them on windows and/or linux then I think it's an acceptable contribution. Dan.