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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 03/02/11 22:57, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
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>> On 3. feb. 2011, at 22:21, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> [\snip]
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>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>
>> How about some or all of these:
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>> 1. Not introducing separate developer branches
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>> 2. Establishing a subset of tests that take a few minutes to run, so that we actually bother to run a set of tests before pushing to the main branch
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> On my computer, the tests are pretty fast. Building the C++ demos is
> slow because the test won't build in parallel (using -jX doesn't help
> when building tests). Maybe Johannes could look at this?

Yes, I will look at this.

Johannes

>> 3. Making the test script more intelligent so that only the tests affected by the changes in code are run
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>> 4. Focusing on separating larger changes out into feature-branches (as before instead of personal-developer-branches)
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> We didn't really do point 4 consistently before. For me, the idea is to
> do more or what is suggested under point 4, but rather than registering
> a new branch every time I work on something I have a permanent 'sandbox'
> that I'm free to break.
>
> My take is that it's fine for the code in personal repositories to fail
> the tests, which is inevitable when implementing bigger changes. What it
> should do is avoid the problem that we've had when the buildbot is red
> for days or weeks - one things breaks the buildbot, and before it's
> fixed a bunch of other problems have been introduced.
>
> Garth
>
>> --
>> Marie
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>>> Is here a way to merge via (A)?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Anders
>>>
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