On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Alpha (Hin-Chung) Lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 2009/3/5 Amanda Walker <[email protected]>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks Amanda and Nicolas for the clarifactions.
> Sorry Dean for wasting your time to debug, I should have comminucated better
> as the patch really is posix specific.
> Sorry all chromium commiters if I have caused trouble to you.

Hey, it's no big deal.  I just want to make sure we took the instance
as an example of how we can improve our build setup, and how we can
keep the tree more stable.

>
> Alpha
>
>>
>> --Amanda
>
>
> >
>

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