[Zope-dev] Getting back to "green"

[Tres Seaver]

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On 10/17/2011 10:21 AM, Adam GROSZER wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:08:55 -0400 you wrote:
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>> We've lost our discipline about keeping the daily tests passing.
>> I think this is due to two factors:
>> 
>> - - We are running tests for code that nobody is actively
>> maintaining (e.g., all the 'z3c.*' packages which have been
>> broken for months).
> 
> If you mean the failures on windowze, I think most of them fail on
> lxml not having windows egg :-S, someone should kick Sidnei(???)

If the z3c.* packages are being maintained, but not by folks who can
resolve that issue on Windows, then we should do the testing on a
platform where the maintainers *can* get the tests to pass.  Having
the board stay red destroys its value for *everybody*, including those
who don't need or care about those packages.

>> - - Because of the noise of those failures, we've gotten
>> complacent about seeing multiple failures in the daily test
>> report, and thus quit trying to find and fix "new" failures in
>> code which is maintained.
>> 
>> I would like to propose that we quit reporting test failures for
>> the unmaintained packages ('zc3.*', for a start.  If somebody
>> really thinks there is value in such testing, we could perhaps
>> run those tests only weekly (like the others which have
>> "expected" failures).
> 
> If it's about suppressing the *reporting* then suppress that, not
> the test runs please. Just in case someone wants to maintain a
> package ;-)

Why waste any resources on tests if nobody is going to find and fix
failures?


Tres.
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