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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 June 2010 14:45:33 Aaron Bentley wrote:
> On 06/08/2010 07:29 AM, Julian Edwards wrote:
> > 4. More testing on dogfood.
> > 
> > And I mean to not just put through a couple of successful builds, I mean
> > more like 100 of them, using bad recipes, good recipes, bad permissions
> > etc. to test all sorts of failure scenarios and different types of
> > packages/recipes.
> > 
> > I'm really very uncomfortable about this feature going on to production
> > again until this has happened.  The build farm is a critical resource
> > and many people get upset when it fails.
> 
> I don't think anyone disagrees about the consequences of screwing up or
> the importance of the build farm.  Please bear in mind, though, that
> when this went live on edge, it was after we had tested on dogfood, and
> that version did not have these issues.

Well, you can never test enough!  But if the testing on dogfood didn't have 
these issues, then what is the root cause of this problem?

> > Please feel free to talk to me about setting up dogfood as much as you
> > need, I want to help with the testing.
> 
> Thanks, we'll certainly take you up on that.

I'm currently dodging other bullets (two CP branches today already) but I'll 
be more available later.

Cheers.