On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:54 PM Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:06 PM Sebastian Hengst <a...@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> > Betreff: Re: mozilla-inbound backout policy subject to change (become
>> > similar to autoland)
>> > Von: Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu>
>> > Datum: 2018-06-24 21:28
>> > > On 6/19/18 9:04 AM, Sebastian Hengst wrote:
>> > >> TL;DR: We would like to change the mozilla-inbound backout policy to
>> > >> be like autoland’s.
>> > >
>> > > This seems like a pretty reasonable change in general.
>> > >
>> > > Is there a well-documented try syntax string which corresponds to
>> "these
>> > > are the things that need to be green to avoid being backed out"?
>> > > Presumably that string is not "-p all -u all" because it should
>> exclude
>> > > tier2 and lower things, but it's not entirely clear to me what the
>> > > autoland backout criteria are.  I would assume we want developers to
>> do
>> > > a try run with that syntax before pushing to inbound as needed.
>> > >
>> > > -Boris
>> >
>> > The recommend Try practices can be found at
>> > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Sheriffing/How_To/Recommended_Try_Practices
>>
>>
>> This doesn't seem to answer the question. I frequently do patches where I
>> can't reliably guess the extent of test breakage and want to run a full
>> set
>> to be on the safe side. What try configuration gives us tier 1 results
>> only?
>>
>
> I agree that the default behavior of `-p all -u all -t all` is running too
> much and confusing people. I filed bug 1471404 to change the behavior.
>
> Will that be sufficient to fix the issue?
>

Sounds good to me.
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