On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Ms2ger <ms2...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/21/2015 06:07 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:39 AM, <jmath...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 3:03:37 AM UTC-5, Gabriele Svelto > >> wrote: > >>> On 21/04/2015 08:25, Gabor Krizsanits wrote: > >>>> Maybe because I usually work on core, and such confidence is > >>>> hard to > >> reach > >>>> there, but I'd like to think at least a try run that check if > >>>> the patch builds on all platform and a full test run on at > >>>> least one platform is > >> not > >>>> too much sacrifice of ones time. > >>>> > >>>> Personally I think that "my time" is cheaper than "everyone's > >>>> time". > >> It is > >>>> slow. It is annoying, but holding up ALL the other > >>>> patches/developers > >> is > >>>> expensive hence a risky option. So I suggest everyone to be > >>>> very conservative about that confident feeling. > >>> > >>> I agree; since I work mostly on patches that are relevant for > >>> FxOS/B2G I always run a try build across all architectures > >>> before to ensure it doesn't break anything else. Somehow I was > >>> under the impression that everybody did that. > >>> > >>> Gabriele > >> > >> I think this should be standard procedure for anyone working on > >> platform. A push to try for a base set of builds (mac, linux, > >> win, b2g ics) plus a good set of tests (usually for me it's > >> mochitests) covers things. Once those mostly complete I can mark > >> the bug with check-needed and walk away, tree drivers will handle > >> the landing when inbound is open and green. > > > > > > Isn't the point of inbound supposed to be that it's safe to land > > even without 100% confidence? Here's the guidance from the Wiki: > > "without 100%" doesn't mean "with 10%", which is what it feel like > nowadays. Tryserver time is machine time; inbound bustage is people > time, and the latter is much more expensive. >
I agree that it shouldn't be 10%. Hopefully once we have the autolander this will be a non-issue. -Ekr _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
