On Friday 2013-01-18 11:49 -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > I see. I think your assumption in point #2 above is mistaken. We > do not close trees because of the gravity of issues affecting the > code base. We do close them when there are busted builds or failing > tests because those prevent proper testing of changesets landed on > top of them. Since your conclusion (and dbaron's) are based on this > incorrect assumption, I don't agree that we should close the Beta > tree at this point.
But there's the question of what constitutes "proper testing". We're still running all of our usual tests across our usual platforms on every push (modulo coalescing). We're just not running quite all of them for the additional testing we do on nightlies. I think the amount of additional test coverage we get from testing nightlies is pretty small, since the differences between nightlies and the PGO builds we generate for every-few-hours testing are pretty small. I value that additional testing much less than I'd value, say, running our tests on a localized build, or with different system locale and timezone settings, or with common extensions installed, or with other variations in commonly-changed profile settings. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
