On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 21:07, Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 7:56 PM Olivier Lamy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Robert
> > Anyway as the build only fail for jdk7 with mvn 3.2.5 on a particular
> node
> > of the asf machines.
> > I build that perfectly with same jdk/mvn....
> > So we cannot really consider this as blocker...
> >
>
> I absolutely do consider that a blocker. Even if it's something as
> idiosyncratic as we need to turn one build machine off and on again,
> this needs to be repaired before a release. Even when the failure mode
> is not a true bug, a failing build trains developers to ignore
> failures, which lets much more serious bugs creep in unnoticed.
>

ok no worries.
So do you want to be volunteer try to understand the problem on this node
and fix the problem with ASF infra folks?


>
> If you disable one failing test because of a build machine issue, what
> happens when that test starts failing everywhere because of an
> unrelated change?
>

I do not disable any test. I'm just saying only one build of the matrix
fail (jdk7/mvn 3.2.5)
The same test works on every other part of the matrix.
And as I said I used the exactly same combination and it works


>
> I've been there before and it's not pretty. Reliable, non-flaky test
> suites are critical for software development. CI systems should be as
> automatic as possible, and should not be routed around.
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold
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