On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's a scene in a movie I love called Kicking and Screaming (not
> the Will Ferrell one), where someone drops a glass on the kitchen
> floor. The housemates are quintessentially lazy, and so its left to
> the next day. But one takes action the next day -- he places a
> carefully lettered sign reading "Watch Out" over the broken glass and
> moves on.
>
> Annotations with this purpose remind me of this scene.

<irony>Isn't that what we are already doing by telling our users to
run the build with tests set to skip?</irony>

This is not to say that taking long-running stuff out of the build by
an annotation is a whole lot better - committers won't be annoyed by
long running tests anymore as  a result and might be even less likely
to fix them. That part of my branch just helped me to iterate more
quickly by having a build that fails quickly in case of trivial
mistakes (due to the faster tests failing) and having a few slow final
iterations to fix the rest.

Isabel

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