[Libreoffice-qa] Confusion about most recent builds

[Ted Lee]

On 3/21/18 3:54 AM, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote:
> They are daily builds from different branches. 6-0 is showing the 
> current state of whatever the next 6.0.x version will be. Master is 
> showing the next major version, 6.1 in this case. They are called 
> "daily", because the building is supposed to be automated.
> 
> The builds can be interrupted for various reasons, including physical 
> damage, like a failed CPU fan or some other component. Then there is the 
> constant maintenance of the build environment. Sometimes tests only 
> break on a certain platform. Anything can, and will, go wrong without 
> warning.
> 
> So keeping those boxes running requires a certain amount of time 
> investment, which is sometimes not immediately possible. We have not had 
> a Windows debug build in 5 months (this is a volunteer-run box).

Thanks, that pretty much answers all my questions.  What started this 
line of questioning was that I'd received an email from Bugzilla saying 
that a bug I'd reported had been fixed, that it should show up in the 
daily build in the next 24-48 hours, and I should verify it had indeed 
been fixed.  I later realized, because of similar unrelated emails I 
received later, that that was probably an automatically generated 
notification and the system actually didn't know when a build (for the 
version I was interested in) would be made.  It looks like such a build 
has not yet been run, for either 6.0.x or 6.1 Mac version, for about a 
week.  And that's just the way it is, and not something to be concerned 
about particularly.

-- 
Ted Lee