Yeah, we should just delete the concept. I'm tired of explaining to folks that a bot that hasn't compiled in a weeks doesn't quality as a core builder.
Adam On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Eric Seidel <e...@webkit.org> wrote: > The Core Builders are a failed experiment (for which I am guilty). > They were intended as a set of builders which when green would allow > the CommitQueue to commit. This was long before the CommitQueue knew > how to commit when the bots were red (like real humans do). > > I know of no set of builders @ build.webkit.org which are consistently > green (Core or otherwise), so the distinction is of little meaning > anymore. :) > > I would vote we just remove the concept of Core Builders at this point. > > -eric > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Antonio Gomes <toniki...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What makes Brent's statement even more understanable is that since the last >> three weeks I've been waiting for a "green" state on at least a few bots to >> land a test, and it simply has not happened. All bots, including Apple's and >> Chromium's have been red for a while, and a "green state" spot seems like an >> exception in this meanwhile. >> >> The bot that has been mostly green lately is Qt's (due to the hard work of >> Ossy and his crew). >> >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Brent Fulgham <bfulg...@webkit.org> wrote: >>> >>> A week or two ago, Adam Barth elected to remove my WinCairo build bot >>> from the list of core builders. In the check-in comment, he noted that >>> the WinCairo bot rarely built, and was never green. >>> >>> I do not agree with either of these statements -- the WinCairo build >>> bot had been green for a number of weeks after I activated tests >>> (instead of just building), and the bot generally builds properly (and >>> has done so for the past couple of years). >>> >>> I admit to being lax in keeping the bot green over the past few weeks, >>> which was an unusual case due to external factors. I generally attempt >>> to maintain the bot every day, but was not able to keep close tabs on >>> it for most of October. >>> >>> The build failures (which I fixed this afternoon) took all of five >>> minutes to correct, and were due to additions to symbol export files >>> that were not applied to the WinCairo version of these files. Surely >>> these small errors could have been corrected by the committer -- which >>> is surely the point of the build bots? >>> >>> While I understand that a Red bot is annoying, I feel that removing >>> the bot simply masked the problem. >>> >>> At the very least, I would hope that in the future that the build bot >>> owners should be notified if a third party makes the arbitrary >>> decision to remove a bot from the core set. The information is clearly >>> provided in the build bot configuration page. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -Brent >>> _______________________________________________ >>> webkit-dev mailing list >>> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >>> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> >> >> >> -- >> --Antonio Gomes >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> >> > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
