[webkit-dev] Getting more buildbots green

[Mark Rowe]

On 2009-01-03, at 21:31, David Levin wrote:

> This is awesome!
>
> btw, in trunk-mac-ppc-pixel, does anyone know why are there so many  
> lines like the following in the output:
> css1/box_properties/border_bottom.html -> pixel hash failed (but  
> pixel test still passes)

These messages are printed when the pixel output is not pixel-for- 
pixel identical, but falls within the allowed tolerance for  
differences (1% on Tiger, 0.1% on Leopard).

- Mark

> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Holger Freyther wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if we would win anything by making the buildbot green.
>
> Here's my opinion on this:
>
> It's a huge win to make a buildbot green. Once it's green, someone  
> who breaks something and makes it red can see they've done something  
> wrong. That's really what buildbots are for. We've gotten way too  
> accustomed to having lots of them red and so we're not getting the  
> full value out of them.
>
>    -- Darin
>
>
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