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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> > On Dec 29, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
> >
> >    The nightly builds are down (out-dated data at the website) and
> Satish is in India and cannot fix it.
> >
> >     Please do not put anything into next until you are notified that the
> nightly tests are working again.
> >
> > Cool.
> >
> > 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.
>

I agree completely. However, right now we are all too indispensible. We
usually focus on transmitting developer knowledge,
but I think we need more focus on transmitting process knowledge. Could
another group of people pick up and run
the maintenance process for PETSc?

   Matt


> > Of course, the right time for this is after the new test regime is in
> place.
> >
> >     Matt
> >
> >
> >     Barry
> > --
> > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> > -- Norbert Wiener
> >
> > https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/
>
>


-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener

https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/>
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