[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 106596] Make Mac EWS bots run API tests

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106596

Daniel Bates <dbates at webkit.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|FIXED                       |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #4 from Daniel Bates <dbates at webkit.org> ---
I tend to relish the archaeology of code. In reality it tends to not matter in the end, but sometimes you can find a gold nugget in the old code. So, for myself and for others  that enjoy this kind of archaeology I am duping this bug to bug #170028. That bug, and the bugs/patches by the same author Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan implemented EWS support for running API tests and analyzing the results. I could have sweared that we even turned it on at one point in time and had a Mac API EWS bot (that is an archaeology dig left for others :)). Sometime before 04/03/2019, it was taken down. I seem to recall hearing that the reason it was taken down was due to the fact that the API tester had to build WebKit just to run the tests (there was no separation of builders and testers as in the New EWS mentioned in comment #3) AND it was never backed by sufficient hardware or thought of as being as important as the layout test bots at the time. It would often fall behind and couldn't process patches fast enough. So, the bot was taken down. (BTW the same problem existed for layout test EWS bots, but sufficient hardware was allocated to these bots). Or maybe there was some showstopping issue that required all such Mac API bot to be taken down.

Anyway, as Aakash wrote in comment #3 we now have API EWS testers (again!). This time for iOS as well.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 170028 ***

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