[webkit-dev] lots of red in the tree.

[David Levin]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Jarred Nicholls <jarred at sencha.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:52 PM, David Levin <levin at chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> It means that I'm much more likely to cause regressions because I miss new
>> test failures caused by my changes among the 12 to 62 failures
>> already occurring on the OS X bots.1
>>
>
> Yeah it was wigging me out this morning.
>
>
>>
>> I think there are a few solutions to the current situation:
>>
>> 1. Live with it. All of the red and green reminds us of the festive winter
>> holidays.
>>
>
> presents!
>
>
>>     Downside: More regressions get in as nobody notices them much even if
>> they try to be careful.
>>     Upside: Requires no more extra work, so it is quick to do!
>>
>> 2. Get folks working on every red test.
>>
>
> Was thinkin' about diving head first into this.
>
>
>>     Downside: May not be able to get folks to drop what they are doing and
>> work on them.
>>     Upside: More stable code, easier to work with, etc.
>>
>> 3. Add them to skipped and file bugs.
>>
>
> Good first step.  Some of the tests are flaky though - I'll get different
> results on subsequent runs.
>

I'm ok with letting flaky ones run for now as they are re-run by the harness
and won't hide new failures. I would like to take care of those that are
always failing.

I'm in favor of this one -- Adding them to skipped and filing bugs.

dave



>
>
>>     Downside: Not having the tree red may lower the urgency and having
>> them in skipped list may mean that folks just ignore them.
>>     Upside: We'll catch regressions more quickly and perhaps stop the
>> current decent which it seems like we've been proceeding on.
>>
>> 4. Your idea!
>>
>> What do other folks think?
>>
>> Dave
>>
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