Author: sajolida Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Releasing automated tests
intrigeri: > sajolida wrote (22 Oct 2015 12:19:04 GMT) :
>>>> FTR I dislike the idea of blacklisting such branches based on their
>>>> name. I'm not going to debate it here [...]
>
>> The prefixes doc/ and web/ are used loosely to differentiate work on the
>> "documentation" (/doc /support) and the "website" in general (structure,
>> stuff not in /doc, etc.) but the difference is not strict.
>
> Indeed. I've also seen the "contrib/", "about/" and "faq/" prefixes
> being used. Branch naming is quite arbitrary, and sometimes creative,
> so yay, instead of relying on a hard-coded list of prefixes:
Yes, amongst writers and translators pretty much everybody has their own
nomenclature :)
>> I also don't think they should be tested. Maybe you could exclude them
>> from testing by their diff to their base branch. If all the diff is
>> under wiki/src then don't test that branch.
>
> I like the idea!
I'll be very happy to receive less Jenkins alerts as well, so I can
concentrate on the few relevant ones.
I don't think I need to follow-up on anything else in this thread.
Please tell me if I should.