Hello Nigel,
Sorry to take a long time to answer, your e-mail was identified as SPAM
by Yahoo! damn filter.
I commented your e-mail below...
Em 26-10-2015 12:28, Nigel Horne escreveu:
I use the TEST_JOBS and HARNESS_OPTIONS environment variables to
parallelize the testing that I do.
I'll take a look at TEST_JOBS (don't know about it) but right now I just
disable HARNESS_OPTIONS: several modules were failing, some with weird
results (like failing due missed dependencies but the dependencies were
tested successfully and were installed!).
They do catch some errors, but be prepared to deal with authors who
disagree that it's their problem!
Honestly, in this case I think we introduced the errors. We can't think
they will magically starting fixing their errors (or forcing sequential
tests by using the proper configuration file) with distribution tests,
specially because in some cases parallel execution is too difficult to
implement.
Maybe we should at least change the report itself, making clear that the
errors reported were due a parallel test execution. Not sure how easy it
is to do it anyway, but checking all environment variables for a
parameter doesn't help much. :-)
