On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:52 PM, David Levin <le...@chromium.org> wrote:
> It means that I'm much more likely to cause regressions because I miss new > test failures caused by my changes among the 12 to 62 failures > already occurring on the OS X bots.1 > Yeah it was wigging me out this morning. > > I think there are a few solutions to the current situation: > > 1. Live with it. All of the red and green reminds us of the festive winter > holidays. > presents! > Downside: More regressions get in as nobody notices them much even if > they try to be careful. > Upside: Requires no more extra work, so it is quick to do! > > 2. Get folks working on every red test. > Was thinkin' about diving head first into this. > Downside: May not be able to get folks to drop what they are doing and > work on them. > Upside: More stable code, easier to work with, etc. > > 3. Add them to skipped and file bugs. > Good first step. Some of the tests are flaky though - I'll get different results on subsequent runs. > Downside: Not having the tree red may lower the urgency and having them > in skipped list may mean that folks just ignore them. > Upside: We'll catch regressions more quickly and perhaps stop the > current decent which it seems like we've been proceeding on. > > 4. Your idea! > > What do other folks think? > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > -- ................................................................ *Sencha* Jarred Nicholls, Senior Software Architect @jarrednicholls <http://twitter.com/jarrednicholls>
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