On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jonathan Lange<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Francis J. > Lacoste<[email protected]> wrote: >> On September 2, 2009, Jonathan Lange wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I just had a quick chat with Michael Hudson, who is our Build >>> Engineer[1] for this release cycle about bug tags. The reason being >>> that I want to file bugs usefully and contribute patches where they >>> are needed. >>> >>> We've currently got three related tags here: >>> - build-infrastructure[2] >>> - test-system[3] >>> - spurious-test-failures[4] >>> >>> The 'test-system' tag seems to be particularly overloaded. It's used >>> for disabled tests, crappy tests, bugs in the testing infrastructure >>> and other things. >>> >>> Also, it would be really nice to have one place to look at for Build >>> Engineer-related bugs. I suggest, >>> >>> * we create a new 'buggy-tests' tag >>> * we abandon the 'test-system' tag >>> * all bugs on 'test-system' move into either 'build-infrastructure', >>> 'buggy-tests' or 'spurious-test-failure' >>> >> >> I'm all for merging test-system into build-infrastructure. >> >> I don't understand the distinction between buggy-tests and spurious-test- >> failures. I think we only need one tag here and spurious-test-failure seems >> to >> be fine (although a little long). >> > > The distinction is that there are some tests that are in some way > buggy that might not be failing spuriously. > > e.g. the test_domination tests in bug 39880. > > But you're right, we probably don't need it. As for tag length, well, > bugs has autocomplete on almost all of the forms where you can enter > it. :) >
And there's a couple of "missing test" style bugs also. e.g., https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/5947 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/30138 I've left these tagged as test-system for now. jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
