[webkit-dev] What's up with the Chromium bots?

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Darin and all,

On Jan 26, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Darin Fisher wrote:

> I don't know... this feels like a step back to me.  While we've made  
> a ton of progress upstreaming changes, we still have more to  
> upstream before we'll be able to build out of svn.webkit.org, so  
> maybe disabling the bot temporarily is the right answer.
>
> On the topic of build systems, I don't think the Chromium changes  
> brewing there should matter much in the short term.  I think we  
> should push ahead making the scons build work and be useful.

Actually, I'm starting to seriously consider hopping on the Scons  
train, so this is one case where I wouldn't mind if a new build system  
was introduced. Just thought I'd point that out in case it provides a  
little motivation. ;-)

Thanks,

Kevin

> If we do remove the bots from the front page, I hope everyone  
> understands that we intend to re-enable them ASAP.
>
> -Darin
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
> Sigh.  Bounced again, silly gmail, the original message:
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Eric Seidel <macdome at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> > I suggest we turn them off.  I can do that from our side.
> >
> > The bots should also be re-configured to not try and run the layout
> > tests.  They could run the JavaScriptCore tests, but I'd have to fix
> > run-javascriptcore-tests to find the binary.
> >
> > I would suggest we should just "fix them" instead of "remove them",
> > except for we're currently re-examining our build infrastructure,  
> and
> > so it's silly to hack on the webkit.org copy more until we finish
> > resolving our build questions @ chromium.org first.
> >
> > If mark would like to just remove them from the config file, that is
> > probably best.  Thanks!
> >
> > -eric
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>  
> wrote:
> >> There are two Chromium bots in the open source WebKit buildbot.
> >>
> >> They permanently seem to say "1077 regressions found". Also,  
> since they
> >> build only JavaScriptCore at the moment, it seems, they are  
> making it hard
> >> to read the rest of the buildbot output, because their build  
> cycles are
> >> faster than all the rest and cause the other ones to stretch out  
> a lot
> >> farther vertically. And despite only compiling JavaScriptCore,  
> they also
> >> seem to be running a failing test called "layout-test".
> >>
> >> Is there something we can do to make these useful or at least get  
> them out
> >> of the way? At the moment they're always red and there's no way  
> for folks
> >> working on WebKit to fix them and make them green.
> >>
> >>    -- Darin
> >>
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