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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:41 AM, William Grant
<william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> WebOps have today finished setting up parallel testing in buildbot.
> buildbot-poll has been updated to know about the new builders, and I've
> confirmed that [testfix] and automatic stable merging etc. work fine.
> Nothing should have changed except that builds now take 35 minutes
> rather than 6.5 hours.

\o/ Thanks for helping with this.

Folk that are interested in taking things further on this and some
related aspects...
 - we could look at ec2test using the parallel runner
 - we could look at premerge testing as Aaron suggests (I suggest
using Jenkins to avoid inventing infrastructure again)
 - we could just start landing with lp-land and back out things that fail
 - we could optimise the ~50% of the test run that is currently single
threaded and common to all workers - any linear reduction there will
give linear benefits
 - we could do the additional work to orchestra the test run across
multiple machines

-Rob