Volunteer for research project?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Fri Feb 22 00:42:16 PST 2013


On 2013-02-22 06:09, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> I'm surprised nobody offered to help, seeing as there are many
> complaints about DMD bugs.
>
> Well, I'd love to help, but I can't promise I'll have the time to do a
> lot.  But I'm reasonably comfortable with running git bisect to isolate
> the offending commits; so if you'll send me a list of issues, I could
> try to work through it at whatever pace I can manage and send you the
> results. I hope it won't be just me, though, 'cos I probably won't have
> the time to do a lot, but if there's a team of people working on it,
> I'll love to chip in.
>
> Don't know how much help I'll be in the correlation part, though. But I
> suppose that will have to come from comparing offending commits to look
> for patterns.

You do know that "git bisect" has a sub command for automatically 
running a test suite/command for each step when bisecting. This way a 
"git bisect" can be handle completely automatically.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html#_bisect_run

Perhaps we can setup something that uses this for automatically finding 
the breaking commits.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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