Re: [platform-dev] Mass changes again

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

The test failures are not reproducable on Gerrit nor locally on Linux.

I will try to setup a Windows machine to see if these are real errors
or only a temporary issue with the Windows test machine. Looking at
the test history of our recent builds, the Windows machine always had
test errors which other machines did not have.

Anyone knows how to check / rest the Windows test machine?

Best regards, Lars



On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:46 AM Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we had numerous regressions in two last builds, I've opened
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=559352
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=559353
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=559355
>
> And I guess there are more, we just don't see them because our test coverage is not the best.
>
> I don't know why should we continue this practice of blind "mass changes" for no good reason, that caused so many regressions so far.
>
> My best example of such regression, on which I've spent a full work week of my time, was https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=551147.
>
> I'm tired to spend my time to do house keeping for others, and I don't see anyone else doing this work. I don't think this is fair.
>
> I would propose that committers that merge "mass changes" *must* do the work I do:
>
> 1) Check SDK build results after integration of mass changes and identify new failures
> 2) Report bugs for new failures
> 3) Identify offending commits and notify authors
>
> If this sounds as too much work, I would propose to re-think the "benefit" of mass changes.
> If we continue in the same way as today, at some point in time the code is "fully optimized" but Eclipse is not usable anymore.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrey Loskutov
>
> Спасение утопающих - дело рук самих утопающих
>
> https://www.eclipse.org/user/aloskutov
>
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