[vtk-developers] Failures on murron and bubbles

[David E DeMarle]

Rogue7 also fills the role of covering mountain lion. So if that gets
demoted, we need another mountain lion in the expected to take its place.


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:07:01 -0400, David E DeMarle said:
>
> >I like the idea of having the nightly expected being just for the
> >particular platforms and dependency releases we explicitly support.
> >
> >I also like the fact that when submitters like these test dev head of our
> >deps we know when there is trouble brewing.
> >
> >The problem we just hit is that it isn't obvious from a quick glance at
> the
> >dashboard which test releases and which don't. A new dashboard section
> >would make it obvious. The nightly section itself could fill that roll if
> >we all agree now that that is what it is for and remember that from now
> >on. Another problem is that the NIghtly section hasn't been maintained
> well
> >enough for us to know if the dashboards in there _should_ be passing. As
> it
> >is now we treat Nightly like an experimental section and for the most part
> >ignore it.
>
> My Rogue7 dashboards are also testing using a top-of-tree build of clang
> (though the clang build itself is not built nightly, just manually every
> few weeks).
>
> This occasionally produces a little non-green if clang regresses in some
> way.
>
> I also have the impression that it would be lost in noise if it was not in
> 'expected', since the 'nightly' section is not so green.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> ____________________________________________________________
> Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
> Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
> Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
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