On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:06 PM Sebastian Hengst <a...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Betreff: Re: mozilla-inbound backout policy subject to change (become
> > similar to autoland)
> > Von: Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu>
> > Datum: 2018-06-24 21:28
> > > On 6/19/18 9:04 AM, Sebastian Hengst wrote:
> > >> TL;DR: We would like to change the mozilla-inbound backout policy to
> > >> be like autoland’s.
> > >
> > > This seems like a pretty reasonable change in general.
> > >
> > > Is there a well-documented try syntax string which corresponds to
> "these
> > > are the things that need to be green to avoid being backed out"?
> > > Presumably that string is not "-p all -u all" because it should exclude
> > > tier2 and lower things, but it's not entirely clear to me what the
> > > autoland backout criteria are.  I would assume we want developers to do
> > > a try run with that syntax before pushing to inbound as needed.
> > >
> > > -Boris
> >
> > The recommend Try practices can be found at
> > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Sheriffing/How_To/Recommended_Try_Practices
>
>
> This doesn't seem to answer the question. I frequently do patches where I
> can't reliably guess the extent of test breakage and want to run a full set
> to be on the safe side. What try configuration gives us tier 1 results
> only?
>

I agree that the default behavior of `-p all -u all -t all` is running too
much and confusing people. I filed bug 1471404 to change the behavior.

Will that be sufficient to fix the issue?

FWIW there were also some discussions at the all hands about in-tree
profiles for `mach try` to make it easier for people to perform common test
scenarios. Would this be a better solution?
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