[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 212755] EWS layout test bots should not automatically retry with more than N failures or an early exit

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212755

--- Comment #2 from David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) <ddkilzer at webkit.org> ---
(In reply to Alexey Proskuryakov from comment #1)
> There were 30 failures on "run-layout-tests-without-patch", so the tree was
> in a bad state. It is correct for EWS to keep trying until the tree is fixed.
> 
> Stopping would be hostile to the patch author, and freeing up resources is
> not meaningful because all patches will fail until the tree is fixed.

This was more about preventing a denial-of-service on EWS after the bad commit was rolled out.  I guess this can be fixed in other ways.

This definitely seems related:
Bug 203698: [EWS] Layout testers can go in an infinite RETRY loop when there are 30+ failures on trunk

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