[webkit-dev] The Purpose of Core Builders

[Eric Seidel]

The Core Builders are a failed experiment (for which I am guilty).
They were intended as a set of builders which when green would allow
the CommitQueue to commit.  This was long before the CommitQueue knew
how to commit when the bots were red (like real humans do).

I know of no set of builders @ build.webkit.org which are consistently
green (Core or otherwise), so the distinction is of little meaning
anymore. :)

I would vote we just remove the concept of Core Builders at this point.

-eric

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Antonio Gomes <tonikitoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> What makes Brent's statement even more understanable is that since the last
> three weeks I've been waiting for a "green" state on at least a few bots to
> land a test, and it simply has not happened. All bots, including Apple's and
> Chromium's have been red for a while, and a "green state" spot seems like an
> exception in this meanwhile.
>
> The bot that has been mostly green lately is Qt's (due to the hard work of
> Ossy and his crew).
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Brent Fulgham <bfulgham at webkit.org> wrote:
>>
>> A week or two ago, Adam Barth elected to remove my WinCairo build bot
>> from the list of core builders. In the check-in comment, he noted that
>> the WinCairo bot rarely built, and was never green.
>>
>> I do not agree with either of these statements -- the WinCairo build
>> bot had been green for a number of weeks after I activated tests
>> (instead of just building), and the bot generally builds properly (and
>> has done so for the past couple of years).
>>
>> I admit to being lax in keeping the bot green over the past few weeks,
>> which was an unusual case due to external factors. I generally attempt
>> to maintain the bot every day, but was not able to keep close tabs on
>> it for most of October.
>>
>> The build failures (which I fixed this afternoon) took all of five
>> minutes to correct, and were due to additions to symbol export files
>> that were not applied to the WinCairo version of these files. Surely
>> these small errors could have been corrected by the committer -- which
>> is surely the point of the build bots?
>>
>> While I understand that a Red bot is annoying, I feel that removing
>> the bot simply masked the problem.
>>
>> At the very least, I would hope that in the future that the build bot
>> owners should be notified if a third party makes the arbitrary
>> decision to remove a bot from the core set. The information is clearly
>> provided in the build bot configuration page.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Brent
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> --Antonio Gomes
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