We could rerun any unexpected fail/crash/timeout tests. If they pass the
second time around, then the tree turns orange instead of red. This has come
up many times, but we've never agreed on whether it's a good idea.
Pros:
-Easier to distinguish between flakiness and new failures
-Tree will be much greener
-Try bots will be much more reliable
-Increase in overall team sanity

Cons:
-Almost guaranteed to sweep some new flakiness under the rug
-If enough flakiness accumulates it will affect cycle time (each
timeout/crash test we rerun takes seconds)

Shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Ojan

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Nicolas Sylvain 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> It's because the sheriff don't notice the new failing tests, because most
>> of the time the gardener does a good job of updating the list at the same
>> time as the merge, so the tree stays mostly green.
>> See http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=28727
>>
>
> In my case I was watching jparent's commits, so I stand by my assertion.
>
> PK
>
> >
>

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