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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On September 2, 2009, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just had a quick chat with Michael Hudson, who is our Build
> Engineer[1] for this release cycle about bug tags. The reason being
> that I want to file bugs usefully and contribute patches where they
> are needed.
>
> We've currently got three related tags here:
>   - build-infrastructure[2]
>   - test-system[3]
>   - spurious-test-failures[4]
>
> The 'test-system' tag seems to be particularly overloaded. It's used
> for disabled tests, crappy tests, bugs in the testing infrastructure
> and other things.
>
> Also, it would be really nice to have one place to look at for Build
> Engineer-related bugs. I suggest,
>
>   * we create a new 'buggy-tests' tag
>   * we abandon the 'test-system' tag
>   * all bugs on 'test-system' move into either 'build-infrastructure',
> 'buggy-tests' or 'spurious-test-failure'
>

I'm all for merging test-system into build-infrastructure.

I don't understand the distinction between buggy-tests and spurious-test-
failures. I think we only need one tag here and spurious-test-failure seems to 
be fine (although a little long).



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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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