From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15369 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2004 23:09:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 15337 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2004 23:09:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out4.apple.com) (17.254.13.23) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 23 Nov 2004 23:09:30 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iANNGMJg010040 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:16:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay3.apple.com (relay3.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.14) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:10:15 -0800 Received: from [17.201.20.87] (mrs2.apple.com [17.201.20.87]) by relay3.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iANN9Rft029928; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:09:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <41A3B68A.5020408@cs.york.ac.uk> References: <200411230026.iAN0QqeO005220@sirius.codesourcery.com> <884E869E-56B9-43AD-ACDD-0F2A47287087@apple.com> <41A29C79.5070803@codesourcery.com> <20041123170139.GA4463@us.ibm.com> <095801c4d180$19e95e40$f503030a@mimas> <41A3B68A.5020408@cs.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v679) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3C78156F-A31E-4A02-8DEF-0AC2490B2409@apple.com> Cc: Giovanni Bajo , Janis Johnson , Mark Mitchell , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Mike Stump Subject: Re: Mainline in regression-fix mode after Thanksgiving Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:52:00 -0000 To: chris jefferson X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00862.txt.bz2 On Nov 23, 2004, at 2:15 PM, chris jefferson wrote: > While I might be missing something obvious, how do you intend to tell? Magic pixie dust. Seriously, any mechanism that works. Some that comes to mind, Pinski, reghunt down to one author... > I occasionally get e-mails that say "you or someone else on this list > caused a regression", Ideally, we'd want a second order tester working off the data from the first that would narrow them down to one author. In fact, given such a tester, the second one should send out the emails, not the first one... :-)