On 23.03.2011 18:10, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Mar 23, 2011, at 05:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >>That's completely bogus. There's no reason to believe that a push race would >>favour certain regressions over certain others. Again, you need the full test >>suite to assert that no regressions occured. (or you might as well run 10 >>tests at random and call it done) > > If you promote the full test suite as the thing to run when resolving merge > races, then I predict no one will run them, because doing so increases your > chances of hitting *another* push race. This whole thread came up in the > context of trying to find a quick test you could run in that case which didn't > increase that race window. I think the practical effect of not having a > simple, fast smoke test will be to do *less* testing when you hit the merge > race, and just let the buildbots sort it all out. You'll probably win most of > the time anyway.
FWIW, +1 to this. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
