[petsc-dev] IMPORTANT nightly builds are down do not add to next

[Smith, Barry F.]

> On Dec 29, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>    The nightly builds are down (out-dated data at the website) and Satish is in India and cannot fix it.
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>     Please do not put anything into next until you are notified that the nightly tests are working again.
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> Cool.
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> This should tell us that we need to make more of an effort to automate this part, and employ failsafe measures.

  Indeed. Note that this is largely just bad timing, this happens very rarely and it is just bad luck Satish is out.

> Of course, the right time for this is after the new test regime is in place.
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>     Matt
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>     Barry
> -- 
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