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automated testing & project change supervision (was Re: KDE4 woes with recent current)



For managing test, integration (or rejection) of change sets I would
recommend using Aegis!

Best regards,

Marko

At Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:41:55 +0200,
Antti Kantee wrote:
> 
> On Wed Mar 23 2011 at 22:42:47 +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
> > > I've seen this problem too for the last few days.  It's not
> > > sluggishness: it's the complete inability for KDE to start whatsoever.
> > >
> > > I have the vague impression that this
> > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2011/03/23/msg010153.html is
> > > related.  I gotta try a patch, but that'll have to wait until later
> > > today.
> > 
> > That is actually related.  A preliminary fix that pooka@ send me fixed
> > the issues for KDE.
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> Then again, I'm not sure why it was my responsibility to debug the
> problem.  At least thanks to the regular test runs (*) done by various
> people I was in a better position than someone investigating "KDE fails"
> perhaps months from now, since I knew exactly which commit caused the
> problem.
> (cf. http://www.gson.org/netbsd/bugs/build/commits-2011.03.html)
> 
> Still, this once again goes to show that any commits causing unexplained
> test failures should be backed out.  The more claims there are about
> the commit being correct and FUD about the tests being broken, the more
> rapidly the backout should occur.  Sure, there are bugs in test cases
> and components used by test cases just like in any other code.  However,
> considering the I daresay quite impressive track record of our automated
> testing efforts catching bugs as they happen, assuming the tests are
> broken when some unexpected result pops up is just not very responsible.
> 
> *) http://releng.netbsd.org/test-results.html
> 
> -- 
> älä karot toivorikkauttas, kyl rätei ja lumpui piisaa

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