On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:09 AM, David Levin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > The webkit api won't help if chromium folks (especially when you change
>> > v8
>> > bindings) don't run the layout tests which is what happened yesterday
>> > and
>> > causes quite a few of our worst problems while gardening.
>>
>> I agree this is essential.
>>
>> > If you're changing the v8 bindings, you're doing it to fix a problem in
>> > chromium, so you must have a build of chomium (and thus be able to run
>> > layout tests).
>>
>> Eric is going to add commit-queue coverage for the V8 bindings, which
>> should help with this problem significantly.
>
> I think this is a great addition, but shouldn't the canary bots have had
> just as
> much of a chance of catching this issue?  Why didn't they catch it?  Is it
> b/c
> of flakiness?  If so, then try bots won't help that much.
> What I think we need to do is beef up the canary bots so that they provide
> equivalent coverage to the mainline Chromium bots.  This will be essential
> if we ever wish to roll WebKit less often (once per week say), which will
> only
> really be possible once we have the WebKit API.
> -Darin

The canaries did catch it. The gardener is also to blame for this.

:DG<

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