From: Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Run (some) tests more automagically?
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:45:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BEEC4F-1FDC-4AD1-8165-D4C542D0F56C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOqdjBdLVYmzRfxLdXdszfaRnzp7vUdG6Q0zJbHCXoUzjAM3PA@mail.gmail.com>
> Am 21.02.2021 um 15:28 schrieb Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>:
>
>
> Speaking of code changes, one thing I'm worried about is that one
> developer on, say, Windows does something, forgets to adjust the tests
> so there's a spurious failure on GNU/Linux, and then the next
> GNU/Linux developer to touch the file will see a test failure that has
> nothing to do with their changes. I don't have a good solution for
> that one.
The typical solution is to run CI pipelines for all supported platforms and not allow pushing commits that fail any of the pipelines. In the context of Emacs, there are still some downsides to this: it would require running nonfree OSes, and right now the CI pipelines are still a bit slow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-21 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-21 13:25 Run (some) tests more automagically? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-21 13:48 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-02-21 14:28 ` Pip Cet
2021-02-21 14:45 ` Philipp [this message]
2021-02-21 16:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-21 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 15:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-24 10:42 ` Phillip Lord
2021-02-24 14:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-26 11:44 ` Phillip Lord
2021-02-26 11:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-01 17:50 ` Phillip Lord
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