We're even close to having warnings-as-errors shell builds on TBPL on
any platform, are we? My local builds certainly don't think so.

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Steve Fink <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu 13 Feb 2014 03:03:23 PM PST, Mike Hommey wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 01:31:55PM -0800, Gary Kwong wrote:
>>> On 2/13/14, 12:18 PM, Steve Fink wrote:
>>>> Sounds like the sticking point is finding someone who will agree to
>>>> keep them alive. There's no point in turning them on if they're going
>>>> to be broken for weeks/months at a stretch.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This can be mitigated as per Valgrind by having per-commit builds as
>>> well as the build running on all important branches (fx-team,
>>> inbound, try, etc.) Sheriffs can back out changes which break the
>>> shell build.
>>>
>>>>  From skimming the discussion, one thing that's unclear to me is if
>>>> we're talking about Windows shell builds, or Windows shell builds with
>>>> warnings-as-errors. I would guess the latter is what causes most of the
>>>> maintenance overhead?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I at least would like the former.
>>
>> Likewise.
>
> So I think the decision should be about getting a warnings-as-warnings
> shell build, since that seems easier to achieve. How much easier; I'm
> not sure. I'm one of those obnoxious js devs who has never helped fix
> the windows builds. I seem to recall Waldo struggling to get the
> windows shell builds back alive not too long ago; I had the impression
> that was just to get it building, not warning-free.
>
>>> I suspect some folks would like the latter (warnings-as-errors), but
>>> that's up for discussion because there's also differing viewpoints.
>>> This could be a separate discussion.
>>
>> Also note that in an ideal world, there would also be mac shell builds.
>
> I *think* those were gated on switching to tooltool. Which I could
> probably do now without too much trouble, after having fought through
> it for the hazards build. Sadly, those are done with completely
> separate scripts. (build/tools shell script vs mozharness script).
>
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