On 4 February 2011 11:10, Gavin Panella <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 February 2011 04:28, Robert Collins <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm wondering if folk have a particularly strong opinion (and >> rationale :P) for which we should do first. They are *both* partly >> implemented, and *both* are likely to have long tails leading to >> niggly bits to sort out over some weeks. > > My gut feeling is that velocity is hurt most when: > > 1. Branches get lost in ec2, especially when there's no message to > tell me or anyone else about it. I might not notice anything the > matter until the following day. > > 2. Branches get bounced out of pqm. Again, this is exacerbated when > there is no message to tell anyone about it. There's also sometimes > a need to work with a LOSA to figure out what the reason was. > > Both of these problems are worth fixing more than making the test > suite finish faster because they happen too often, and the delays they > introduce grow quickly and are without bound (well... there's common > sense when things get silly).
I was trying to write something similar to what Gavin wrote, but I'm tired so I'll just say +1 and push Gavin forward if anyone wants to ask me my opinion on things. Parallel testing is a nice to have compared to merge machinery that doesn't make me a sad bear. -- Graham Binns | PGP Key: EC66FA7D http://launchpad.net/~gmb _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
