On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:53:36AM -0400, Chris AtLee wrote: > On 28/09/12 09:28 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > >On 9/28/12 8:32 PM, Chris Pearce wrote: > >>This is indeed unfortunate. However I'd prefer to add more capacity to > >>our test infrastructure, rather than discourage developers from properly > >>testing before landing. > > > >I think the concern is the definition of "properly". > > > >>If Try is hogging resources needed by Inbound, we should lower the > >>priority of Try. > > > >Try is hogging resources needed by _Try_. The last try push I did, > >asking for one test on one platform, waited for over a day before the > >test even started running. > > This is why we've been pushing hard on turning off tests that are > perma-red/orange. The test machines are shared between all branches. > If you reduce the test load from inbound and other branches, then > more capacity is available for try. This effort has made some > progress. In August 1,410 XP test jobs on try waited longer than 24 > hours to start. In September (so far!) 0 jobs have waited longer > than 24 hours. > > In a world of infinite compute resources, we should run all the > tests. In our world of finite resources, we have to make sure we're > getting good information for the tests we run. > > One proposal that's been made elsewhere > (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791385) is to have a > soft limit of one active push per developer on try. If you try and > push a 2nd time before your previous jobs are all finished, you will > be asked to cancel your previous jobs. There would be some kind of > manual override that would allow you to push additional patches. > > Take a look at http://people.mozilla.org/~catlee/try_pushers.html. > This is a report of people who pushed to try within 60 minutes of > their previous push since September 1. In some cases patches are > clearly unrelated, and in other cases people have cancelled their > previous job (woohoo!). There are many other cases where it appears > that people are pushing very similar code to try without having > cancelled their previous jobs.
And most often (at least when i do), it's for a reason. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
