Instead of using Nightly, could you use the last green test run's Gaia master 
branch commit id as the replacement for a nightly branch commit id?

John

On Feb 1, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Jonathan Griffin wrote:

> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834354
> 
> On 2/1/2013 1:22 PM, John Ford wrote:
>> That only works if code gets uplifted to nightly regularly, which it isn't 
>> any more.
>> 
>> What's the bug tracking the fixes to automation -- can we prioritize these 
>> fixes?
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 1, 2013, at 1:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>>> Regarding TBPL tests, the removal of nightly will be problematic for 
>>> sheriffing.
>>> 
>>> Currently, we run Gaia UI tests per gecko commit, not per gaia commit.  (We 
>>> have plans to do the latter, but it's a little complicated getting it 
>>> hooked up.)
>>> 
>>> On each gecko commit, we run the tests twice, once against gaia's master 
>>> branch and once against gaia's nightly branch.  If a test breaks against 
>>> both, the sheriffs can assume it is a gecko problem.  If a test breaks only 
>>> against gaia's master branch, but not against gaia's nightly branch, then 
>>> sheriffs can assume it's a gaia problem.
>>> 
>>> Without gaia's nightly branch, we won't be able to make that distinction; 
>>> sheriffs will have no way to know if a bustage is caused by a gecko or gaia 
>>> commit, which will effectively make them unsheriffable, at least until we 
>>> get tests running per-commit to gaia.
>>> 
>>> Can we postpone this change until buildbot is capable of running Gaia tests 
>>> per-Gaia-commit?
>>> 
>>> Jonathan
>>> 
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