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[Ian Booth <ian.booth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/02/11 21:49, Graham Binns wrote:
> On 4 February 2011 11:10, Gavin Panella <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> My gut feeling is that velocity is hurt most when:
>>
>> 1. Branches get lost in ec2, especially when there's no message to
>>   tell me or anyone else about it. I might not notice anything the
>>   matter until the following day.
>>
>> 2. Branches get bounced out of pqm. Again, this is exacerbated when
>>   there is no message to tell anyone about it. There's also sometimes
>>   a need to work with a LOSA to figure out what the reason was.
>>
>> Both of these problems are worth fixing more than making the test
>> suite finish faster because they happen too often, and the delays they
>> introduce grow quickly and are without bound (well... there's common
>> sense when things get silly).
> 
> I was trying to write something similar to what Gavin wrote, but I'm
> tired so I'll just say +1 and push Gavin forward if anyone wants to
> ask me my opinion on things.
> 
> Parallel testing is a nice to have compared to merge machinery that
> doesn't make me a sad bear.
> 
> 

+1 What they said ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^