I'd be happy if we did the 10.7 and 10.6 tests only when we trigger
Windows PGO builds.  That seems like a good compromise here, since the
sheriffs have to wait for PGO coverage on m-i before merging anyway.

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Armen Zambrano G. <arme...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> After re-reading, I'm happy to disable just m-i/try for now.
>
> Modifying to trigger *some* jobs on m-i through would be some decent amount
> of work (adding Mac pgo builders) but still different than normal operations
> and increase the 10.6/10.8 test load.
>
>
> On 2013-04-26 1:31 PM, Justin Lebar wrote:
>>
>> I don't think I'm comfortable disabling this platform across the
>> board, or even disabling debug-only runs across the board.
>>
>> As jmaher pointed out, there are platform differences here.  If we
>> disable this platform entirely, we lose visibility into rare but, we
>> seem to believe, possible events.
>>
>> It seems like the only reason to disable everywhere instead of only on
>> m-i/try (or running less frequently on m-i, like we do with PGO) is
>> that the former is easier to implement.  It seems like we're proposing
>> taking a lot of risk here to work around our own failings...
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Armen Zambrano G. <arme...@mozilla.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2013-04-26 12:14 PM, Justin Lebar wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Would we be able to go back to where we disabled 10.7 altogether?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On m-i and try only, or everywhere?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The initial proposal was for disabling everywhere.
>>>
>>> We could leave 10.7 opt jobs running everywhere as a compromise and
>>> re-visit
>>> after I re-purpose the first batch of machines.
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>> Armen
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Armen Zambrano G.
>>>> <arme...@mozilla.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Just disabling debug and talos jobs for 10.7 should reduce more than
>>>>> 50%
>>>>> of
>>>>> the load on 10.7. That might be sufficient for now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any objections on this plan?
>>>>> We can re-visit later on if we need more disabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> Armen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2013-04-26 11:50 AM, Armen Zambrano G. wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would we be able to go back to where we disabled 10.7 altogether?
>>>>>> Product (Asa in separate thread) and release drivers (Akeybl) were OK
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> the compromise of version specific test coverage being removed
>>>>>> completely.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Side note: adding Mac PGO would increase the build load (Besides this
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> have to do a large PO as we expect Mac wait times to be showing up as
>>>>>> general load increases).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not all reducing load approaches are easy to implement (due to the way
>>>>>> that buildbot is designed) and it does not ensure that we would reduce
>>>>>> it enough. It's expensive enough to support 3 different versions of
>>>>>> Mac
>>>>>> as is without bringing 10.9 into the table. We have to cut things at
>>>>>> times.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One compromise that would be easy to implement and *might* reduce the
>>>>>> load is to disable all debug jobs for 10.7.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>> Armen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2013-04-26 11:29 AM, Justin Lebar wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As a compromise, how hard would it be to run the Mac 10.6 and 10.7
>>>>>>> tests on m-i occasionally, like we run the PGO tests?  (Maybe we
>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>> trigger them on the same csets as we run PGO; it seems like that
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> be useful.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Ryan VanderMeulen
>>>>>>> <rya...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/26/2013 11:11 AM, Justin Lebar wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> So what we're saying is that we are going to completely reverse
>>>>>>>>>> our
>>>>>>>>>> previous tree management policy?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Basically, yes.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Although, due to coalescing, do you always have a full run of tests
>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>> the tip of m-i before merging to m-c?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes. Note that we generally aren't merging inbound tip to m-c -
>>>>>>>> we're
>>>>>>>> taking
>>>>>>>> a known-green cset (including PGO tests).
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