The releng buildbot nightly scheduler has logic for only triggering nightly 
builds on hg changesets that are known to compile (I can't remember if it also 
checks for tests).

John


On Feb 1, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Jonathan Griffin wrote:

> Yes, that would probably work.  I'm not sure if buildbot is flexible enough 
> to handle that kind of scheduling.  cc'ing catlee.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On 2/1/2013 2:42 PM, John Ford wrote:
>> Instead of using Nightly, could you use the last green test run's Gaia 
>> master branch commit id as the replacement for a nightly branch commit id?
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> On Feb 1, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Jonathan Griffin wrote:
>> 
>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834354
>>> 
>>> On 2/1/2013 1:22 PM, John Ford wrote:
>>>> That only works if code gets uplifted to nightly regularly, which it isn't 
>>>> any more.
>>>> 
>>>> What's the bug tracking the fixes to automation -- can we prioritize these 
>>>> fixes?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 1, 2013, at 1:11 PM, jonallengrif...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Regarding TBPL tests, the removal of nightly will be problematic for 
>>>>> sheriffing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Currently, we run Gaia UI tests per gecko commit, not per gaia commit.  
>>>>> (We have plans to do the latter, but it's a little complicated getting it 
>>>>> hooked up.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> On each gecko commit, we run the tests twice, once against gaia's master 
>>>>> branch and once against gaia's nightly branch.  If a test breaks against 
>>>>> both, the sheriffs can assume it is a gecko problem.  If a test breaks 
>>>>> only against gaia's master branch, but not against gaia's nightly branch, 
>>>>> then sheriffs can assume it's a gaia problem.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Without gaia's nightly branch, we won't be able to make that distinction; 
>>>>> sheriffs will have no way to know if a bustage is caused by a gecko or 
>>>>> gaia commit, which will effectively make them unsheriffable, at least 
>>>>> until we get tests running per-commit to gaia.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can we postpone this change until buildbot is capable of running Gaia 
>>>>> tests per-Gaia-commit?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>> 
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