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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Brad Crittenden
<brad.crittenden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Martin,
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> Thanks for bringing up this issue.  In the past I've championed driving the set of unlanded branches towards zero but have not been successful.  Automated nagging emails certainly don't work and real-live <strike>nagging</strike>encouragement is only nominally better.

Nagging an encouragement don't make it easy or simple; doing multiple
things at once guarantees that hard or complex things will get
sidelined. What we have is primarily, I think, purely sideffect of:
 - 4 hour test suites [highly delayed feedback]
 - testfix *existing* [after your 4 hour check, it can still bounce]
 - a high rate of spurious errors (> 1% is high, and I'm pretty sure
thats the case)
 - folk working on many things at once (which is itself a result of
the 4 hour queue)

-Rob