On Sat, 11 Nov 2017, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > > > BTW: Ultimlately if you want to improve current next model - everyone > > has to do a 'make alltests DIFF=$PETSC_DIR/bin/petscdiff' for atleast > > one build that has relavent feature options enabled - before merging > > the feature branch to next. > >
> This does not agree with my experience (I think) for bug finding. It > tends to be other architectures (complex, 64-bit int, fortran) that > fail for me, which means running that for many builds, and my laptop > is just not capable, and furthermore that is why we have a farm of > machines. Your laptop is just an excuse. You can do it on cg.mcs or other machines. Infact you can run one of the complex or 64-bit tests manually on cg. My point here is - there are quiet a few issues 'make alltests' would have found before merge to next [and should be fixed.] Sure 'next' testing with all the variations do find other various issues. Skipping the first step - and using next for that basic testing just breaks it more - and things stay broken longer [and takes everyone elses time to figure out what broke next]. And everyone thinks someone else broken next - and its stays broken for weeks.. Satish