On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Alpha (Hin-Chung) Lam <[email protected]> wrote: > everytime I do a checkin I do a sync and send it > to the try server, which really takes me a lot of time, but still try server > is showing me green light to check in, am I suppose to not trust the try > server and rely on human intelligence?
In this case watching the build wouldn't have helped, since the buildbots stayed green (I had misinterpreted Dean's original message, the tone of which he has since apologized for). However, to answer the general question, you should not completely trust the try server. If the try server breaks, it's a very good indication that an actual commit would break, but the reverse is not true. If the try server succeeds, it doesn't mean that a commit will succeed, since the try server runs fewer tests (and there may be commits to the tree in between doing a try and doing a commit). So even if the try succeeds, it's still important to watch the buildbots to make sure the actual commit also succeeds. That wasn't the problem in this instance (you wouldn't have seen this failure), but I wanted to make sure people don't rely too much on the try server. It's a good "preflight check", but it won't catch everything. --Amanda --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
