In addition, code change in widget/{android,cocoa,gonk,gtk,windows,...}
should only need build and test in the corresponding platforms.- Xidorn On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been noticing that the number of builds + tests we run on certain > changesets could still do with improving. I realize that we try to be > conservative because we don't want "magically appearing" orange, but I > still think that it should be possible to do better here. That seems like > it might also help with recent capacity problems (maybe?). > > I don't know who's responsible for improving this, so I'm just posting > this here. The list is biased towards frontend desktop work because that is > what I do. Perhaps other people can provide further examples or insight > from android, b2g, platform, releng or sheriff perspectives into what > could/couldn't be improved here. > > > Some examples: > > (1) > https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=fx-team&revision=0fd6c4c24dc9 > > This checkin only touched a single test file in browser/components/ > preferences/in-content/tests/ > > It triggered browser builds on all platforms, but also all kinds of B2G > builds and tests, which are clearly useless, as well as running all kinds > of unrelated test suites for the browser builds. > > Ideally, commits that only touch things in directories matching **test** > should only run the relevant test suite, if possible even with builds from > the previous rev. > > (2) > https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=fx-team&revision=2b1d7ebb8325 > > This touched files in: > browser/base > browser/components > browser/locales > toolkit/obsolete/content > > I don't think any of these are used outside Firefox for Desktop, and yet > android and b2g were built, too. The same happened with: > > https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=fx-team&revision=80bd1ae9dd0a > which touched toolkit/content/widgets/ which AIUI is also desktop-only. > > (3) > Checkins (couldn't find one offhand because summaries are little help in > identifying these) that only touch windows/linux/osx styles in browser/ > and/or toolkit should only run those builds > > > ~ Gijs > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
