Re: Draft release notes complete

On 8/29/12 11:52 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >> Why does this need to be tied into the build farm?  Someone can surely
>> set up a script that just runs the docs build at every check-in, like it
>> used to work.  What's being proposed now just sounds like a lot of
>> complication for little or no actual gain -- net loss in fact.
> 
> It doesn't just build the docs. It makes the dist snapshots too.

Thus making the turnaround time on a docs build even slower ... ?

> And the old script often broke badly, IIRC.

The script broke on occasion, but the main problem was that it wasn't
monitored.  Which is something that could have been fixed.

> The current setup doesn't install
> anything if the build fails, which is a distinct improvement.

You mean it doesn't build the docs if the code build fails?  Would that
really be an improvement?