Re: Unified builds (regarding periodic clobber)

2013-11-21 Thread Karl Tomlinson
Gregory Szorc writes: > Do we need periodic clobber? It's just wallpapering over legit > clobber-needed issues, which doesn't exactly help us fix them. The problem is that unfixed bugs in dependences mean that code bugs can sometimes not show up until the next clobber. There is then a huge regre

Re: Unified builds (regarding periodic clobber)

2013-11-21 Thread Gregory Szorc
On 11/21/13, 8:40 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 2013-11-21 10:44 AM, Ed Morley wrote: On 21 November 2013 15:38:28, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: We don't, we clobber periodically. I'm not sure why that is better than never clobbering... We've been force-clobbering 1-2 times a day in automation for sev

Re: Unified builds (regarding periodic clobber)

2013-11-21 Thread Ed Morley
> On 11/21/13, 8:40 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: >> Yes, but our periodic clobber has been in effect long before that bug >> (and in fact for as long as I can remember.) Yes, but it's only once a week rather than a couple of times a day :-) On 21/11/2013 16:45, Gregory Szorc wrote: Do we need perio