On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, at 20:15, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 9/9/2019 12:46 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, at 16:50, Victor Stinner wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I see a high activity on pull requests on the CPython project, likely
> >> because of the CPython sprint. Sadly, the AppVeyor is still slow and
> >> still has only 2 jobs in parallel.
>
> A couple of years ago, I suggested that we treat testing time as a
> limited resource and not run unneeded tests. I still think this a good
> idea. The problem will only get worse in the future.
>
> For instance, a PR properly labelled 'documentation' does not need code
> checks. I don't believe that a PR with only such changes needs any
> check other than to verify that changes in .py files are limited to
> docstrings and comments. Similarly for C comments.
We already prune the full test suite from documentation-only changes. (See
"before_install" in .travis.yml.)
Figuring out how to detect whether a change is just comments is probably not
worth it; there aren't really many PRs of that nature.
>
> > Yeah, there has been quite some crankiness about this at the sprint. :)
> >
> >>
> >> Would it be possible to make the AppVeyor job non-mandatory to allow
> >> to merge a PR faster? If it's configurable per branch, it would be
> >> nice to do this change for 2.7, 3.7, 3.8 and master branches.
> >
> > No one could think of a reason not to replace AppVeyor with Azure, so I've
> > gone ahead and done that on all those branches.
>
> Azure sometimes has false positive failures on the mac test where it
> times out after an hour because one of the tests hangs. This has
> happened to me twice in the last month. Can you make that not a
> requirement?
It would be best if we could figure out how to fix that problem.
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