On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
If we can get the validate results from other people's machines, at the very least we have a sanity check: does it only fail for me or for everyone else too? I think that if we have a list of platforms with angry red everywhere, accessible to everyone, people are more likely to react to build failures and we're less likely to have e-mails on ghc-devs from people going ‘is it just me or is it failing for everyone?’.
And for the record, I do agree with this. I think a historic problem is the results have never been public enough to most developers, and unfortunately not everyone is trained to respond to just the emails sent to ghc-builds@haskell.org to diagnose a problem. Seeing a gigantic angry red build failure that blames you directly is likely much easier to for most people as opposed to sorting through emails from bots every morning. -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/