L. David Baron wrote on 09/04/2016 10:02 AM: > Recently, sheriffing practices have changed so that intermittent > failure bugs that show up in different tests now have a separate > bugzilla bug for each test they occur in. This causes: > > 1. a large number of rarely-occurring bugs -- enough that > intermittent-orange bugs are a significant fraction of the bugs > reported, but most of the bugs document only a single failure (in > many cases, a problem that has also occurred on other tests, > tracked in different bugs). This encourages ignoring the bugs and > just looking at orangefactor for what's interesting/relevant. > > 2. spreading out a single problem across >100 bugs [1] leads to the > severity of that problem being ignored for extended periods of > time.
We are all aware of this and lately the following bug got filed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299274 So maybe a solution is not that far away. -- Henrik _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
