[webkit-dev] Recent EWS improvements

[Aakash Jain]

> On Sep 4, 2019, at 11:49 am, Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez at igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Aakash, WebKittens,
> 
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:01:56 -0400, Aakash Jain <aakash_jain at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> I want to update everyone with the further improvements I have made to new
>> EWS. As always, please feel free to provide any feedback (either by filing
>> bugs or contacting me directly). 
>> 
>> New Features:
>> 
>> [...]
> 
> Thanks a ton for all the improvements in the EWS! Since we moved the GTK/EWS
> builders to the new queues they have been faster and more reliable. After
> solving a couple of minor hiccups right after the switch, the builders have
> not needed any manual intervention since (with the old system we would need
> to clean stray files from old builds now and then, but not anymore!)

Glad to hear. New EWS has been more reliable and easier to maintain at our end as well.

> 
> \o/
> 
>> Only remaining queues on old EWS are windows, jsc and commit-queue, which I
>> will be working on next.
> 
> Today Xan López and I talked a bit about the JSCOnly queue. We have a many
> builders targeting different architectures, which we would like to have
> moved to the new system.
> 
> In the case of the JSC port, instead of grouping all of the builders under a
> single “jsc” status bubble it would be better to have a bubble for each target
> architecture e.g. “jsc-armv7”, “jsc-arm64”, and so on.

Yes, my plan is to have separate bubbles for different architectures. I will touch base with you when I work on those queues.

> 
> The motivation is that we think it makes sense to that the system considers
> that a patch cannot be landed if it breaks any of the supported JSC
> architectures. With a single status bubble grouping them, we can have
> situations where a builder for one architecture passes the build+checks
> but the patch may still break *some other* architecture (e.g. a patch
> that touches ARM code generation gets picked by a MIPS builder).
> 
> Is the above something that can supported? Let us know if you need more
> information and/or some support from our side for this.
> 
> Best regards,
> —Adrián