[dmd-internals] What is the necessary to increase speed of merging?

[Alex]

FWIW, I have a Gentoo x86-64 machine standing around doing practically
nothing. If it can be put to use for auto-testing, let me know.

Regards,
Alex

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2011 10:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> On 11/11/11 12:22 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> It usually takes a couple hours to merge a patch, if things go
>>> smoothly. Most of that is running the test suite.
>>
>> That suggests a simple investment of money in bigger iron could have a
>> large positive impact on the development pace. This is NOT the time to
>> be stingy, as being penny wise now means we're negatively impacting D's
>> future - perhaps irreversibly. Walter, I'm ready to pay 50% of whatever
>> machine you want to buy. Please contact me for details.
>>
>> Kenji's post is symptomatic of a problem that I wished we'd have for a
>> long time, and that I figured a few months ago it's inevitable: the
>> bottleneck is not lack of contributions anymore, it's process and
>> logistics.
>>
>> Walter, we should discuss improving these areas ASAP.
>>
>>>> Please answer this question, Walter. I'd like to improve the
>>>> bottleneck.
>>>
>>> I'd like to compliment you on how prolific, helpful, and correct your
>>> patches have been. Thanks!
>>
>> I'd like to join Walter, too, but let me also point out that in addition
>> to thanking him, we need to *really* answer
>> Kenji's question with a concerted course of action.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei
>
> The bigger issue, imho, is Walter's lack of trust in the automated testers.
>  If they're insufficient, then lets talk about what it will take to make
> them sufficient.  They can and will keep way ahead of Walter's individual
> test runs. Bigger hardware under his desk (or in a closet or in the
> basement) is the wrong approach, imho.
>
> We've got Daniel's pull tester here: http://yebblies.com/results/
>
> I'm working on incorporating it in to my system so they're will be more
> parallelism (multiple boxes) and multiple platforms (all of them, ideally).
>
> With trust in the tester, that eliminates hours of time from each pull
> request.
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