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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/02/11 22:57, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3. feb. 2011, at 22:21, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> [\snip]
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>
>>> How about some or all of these:
>>>
>>> 1. Not introducing separate developer branches
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> 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?

This was fixed yesterday.

Johannes

> 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
>>>
>>> 4. Focusing on separating larger changes out into feature-branches (as before instead of personal-developer-branches)
>>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is here a way to merge via (A)?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Anders
>>>>
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