Hey everyone,
I can no longer hold this email!
Unfortunately this is not an isolated case lately (look at old builds in
https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/index.html Integration builds and you will notice that most of the old builds have at least double digit number of test failures and many ever 3!). The worst part seems to be that committers don't seem to check and this results regularly.
Here is my request:
Try to look at the last night's build result and investigate things thoroughly as your morning routine and if you have submitted any change on the previous day - that should be MANDATORY!
Current status of a very small number of people keeping a look at the results, investigating where the failure comes from and why is not sustainable in any way as most of the time this is far more time than actually fixing the problem after analysis.
I hope that all of you understand correctly that if this doesn't happen (immediately) the quality of our next releases will be under risk.
P.S. Improving tests (and infrastructure) so more of the issues are catched by verification builds is of course even better so you're more than welcome to land a hand there too!
-- Aleksandar Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse Team
