Thank you for the response and candor about the build status pages. I look forward to a build status for the current release, this is great news.
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:59:32 PM UTC-5, Matthew McNulty wrote: > > > Hey Peter, > > We're working on fixing this and will have a better answer soon, but I > didn't want to continue to leave you hanging. > > The build status you see on the site is pointing at the tip of tree, which > is a lot less stable than what we release. Occasionally there are testing > infrastructure bugs or chrome bugs that keep some of the tests red, but we > know about them and ignore those false negatives when we release, even > though the matrix will show red. Any single test, including one false > negative, is currently reflected as red for an entire portion of the > matrix. > > This makes that particular build status useful for us internally > (sort-of), but not for your purposes. We're working to change that so it > more accurately reflects the release status and stability, but it will take > a bit to accomplish. > > -Matt > > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:21 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> How does the Polymer team use the build status? >> >> I'm not sure if I've ever seen an all green status, and yet new releases >> keep coming... >> As a developer wanting to use and advocate Polymer, this is hard to >> swallow and even harder to sell to fellow coworkers or management. >> "You want to use what? They don't even have a grasp of their own tests! >> With constantly red builds, who knows what regressions are going to bubble >> up into our app if we use it!?" >> >> Thanks. >> >> Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Polymer" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/193b8ef4-f895-4b1e-b812-f5ea50d1f422%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/193b8ef4-f895-4b1e-b812-f5ea50d1f422%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/32d497d9-b665-4a9e-b0fb-4e54d4a6faa7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
