> 250 iterations isn't enough; I use 500 as a low water mark.
Say more here. I originally had it at 500 but neither Mick nor I knew why and 
figured we could suss this out on this thread.

> This is also assuming that circle and ASF CI run the same tests, which
> is not entirely true. 
+1: we need to fix this. My intuition is the path to getting circle-ci in 
parity on coverage is a shorter path than getting ASF CI to 3 green runs for 
GA. That consistent w/your perception as well or do you disagree?

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, at 2:15 PM, Brandon Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 12:20 PM Josh McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote:
> > For CI on a patch, run the pre-commit suite and also run multiplexer with 
> > 250 runs on new, changed, or related tests to ensure not flaky
> 
> 250 iterations isn't enough; I use 500 as a low water mark.
> 
> > I think it's worth calling out: relying on circleci test runs along with 
> > ASF CI as an option implies we have the same confidence in a green circleci 
> > run as we have in a green ASF CI run.
> 
> This is also assuming that circle and ASF CI run the same tests, which
> is not entirely true.  We know that circle isn't running some upgrade
> tests from https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17912 but I
> think we need to specifically investigate parity between the two
> systems for further discrepancies before we can begin to compare
> confidence in runs between them.
> 

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