I'll work on finishing the Windows EWS. The remaining blocking issue is working around the case insensitivity of the Windows file system.
Adam On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Gavin Barraclough <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Many apologies for the redness. These changes are pretty much complete now, > so hopefully there shouldn't be any more big file moves like this too soon. > > One thing that was hugely useful in minimizing the breakage as much as > possible while making these changes was the ews bots – these generally > helped me to get my patches building cleanly on all platforms bar Windows > before committing. It is a real shame that an ews bot isn't available for > Windows, since this would be particularly useful - JSC changes frequently > break Windows builds due to the .def files. > > I believe a big problem that caused the extended periods of redness was the > slowness of the Windows test queues. These can lag badly behind the builds, > making failures here very are easy to miss - having landed a large change, > and waited to watch the waterfall stay green for an extended period of time, > it was easy to be under the misapprehension that everything was okay. Only > later would I discover windows test had started to fail. Clearly there is a > lesson I've learned here, but maybe we can find some more hardware to throw > at these queues, to help them avoid getting quite so far behind. > > cheers, > G. > > > On Apr 21, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Eric Seidel wrote: > >> A large portion of the tree redness in the last 3 days is due to JSC >> string re-factoring. >> >> We need to build some better tools, or find some better method to land >> these changes w/o hosing the tree. I'm happy to help with building of >> said tools if folks have requests/suggestions. >> >> Broken in 58001 Fixes: 58003, 58006, 58007, 58008, 58010 >> Time: 55m >> >> Broken in 57904 Fixes: 57908, 57911, 57912, 57917 >> Time 1hr 45m >> >> Broken in 57829 Attempted fix: 57835, Rolled out in:57853 >> Time: 3h 21m >> >> Re-broke in 57879 Fixes: 57883, 57884 >> Time: 3h 3m >> >> Getting 57829 landed resulted in nearly a full work-day of tree >> redness. :( Also, even once a change is fixed, it will take 15 mins >> or so for all the bots to cycle green. >> >> -eric >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
