On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 at 09:57, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
But the real reason for having a buildbot category (or at least a keyword)
would be to be able to tag all bugs that are currently making buildbots
fail that are _not_ the result of a recent checkin. This would make
the task of finding the bugs that need to be cleaned up to stabilize
the buildbot fleet easier. I'm currently aware of issues 4970, 3892,
and 6462 in this category, and there are a few more that we can/will file
if we continue to pay attention to the failure reports now arriving on
the irc channel.
That's convincing; I've created a "buildbot" keyword. I gave it the
description
"indicates that tests fail on a buildslave for uncertain reasons"
If that is indeed the intended purpose of this classification, please
keep it in mind when assigning the tag. If I misunderstood the purpose
of the keyword, please provide a better description.
How about:
"indicates that related test failures are causing buildbot
instability"
My thought is that sometimes we more-or-less know the reasons for the
failure, but for one reason or another we can't fix it immediately, and
I'd like to keep such a bug visible when looking at buildbot related
issues.
IMO it would be no bad thing for this tag to be applied to any issue
that is created as a result of an observed test failure on a buildbot.
Such an issue should only get created if the person who did the checkin
that caused it can't reproduce the problem themselves (ie: they ran
the test suite and on their platform it was clean). Now, we know that
in practice some bugs show up on buildbots because a committer forgot
to run the test suite prior to check in (we all make mistakes), but if
such a bug gets tagged 'buildbot' I think that's fine, since it will
still be affecting the stability of the buildbots.
--David_______________________________________________
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