Re: documentation build log is busted, and has been for awhile

On 05/27/2010 01:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Is anybody maintaining
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/buildlog.html
> ?
>
> For some time now, that page has failed to update if the underlying
> build fails, which makes it approximately completely useless.  A more
> cosmetic but still annoying problem is that the build completion time
> isn't shown correctly.  For example, the current contents of the page
> are
>
>     PostgreSQL Documentation Build Log
>
>     Build started: 2010-05-26 22:39 UTC
>     Build finished: + echo -n '' + date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z'
>
>     No changes in this build
>
>     Build completed successfully.
>
>     View or download the documentation.
>
> even though somebody committed broken markup half an hour ago.

hmm - maybe we should monitor as part of the main monitoring
infrastructure just like we monitor the snapshot builds...
However if the docs failed to build for a while I wonder why the
snapshots are still getting done...


Stefan