Re: What's with the test-patches volunteers?

[James]

Hello,

On 22 April 2012 16:00, Colin Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12-04-22 03:57 AM, Phil Holmes wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
>> To: <address@hidden>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 7:31 AM
>> Subject: What's with the test-patches volunteers?
>>
>>
>>
>> It is close to two months that I have been the only person running
>> test-patches, even though several volunteers claimed they would do so.
>> It has been the main reason I shelled out €20 for a week of internet
>> access during my spring vacation.
>>
>
>
> My home machine stays powered and idle, except for BOINC, while I'm at the
> office.  With a bit of a leg up, I can help out by way of a cron job.

This isn't 'that' patchy - you cannot really cron it

Needs a bit of human input.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/patchy

Specifically - test-patches.py:

I already run lilypond-patchy-staging.py on my machine, you don't need
to worry about that so much.

Graham calls it all 'patchy' - I like to think of them as Brother and Sister. ;)

Patchy and Patchita

<chuckle>

James