[infinispan-dev] Let's stop with pull requests

[Manik Surtani]

On 30 May 2012, at 13:00, Dan Berindei wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Manik Surtani <manik at jboss.org> wrote:
>> I pretty much agree with this; and here's a bit of history.
>> 
>> For the large part we have had a stable test suite, but the occasional unpredictability in the suite came in when we introduced the parallel test runner, to allow us to run the (core) suite in under 5 minutes - a suite which otherwise took over 2 hours when run sequentially.
>> 
>> We could revert back to just using the sequential test runner if people prefer that - it makes the suite run more predictably and hence easier to debug and maintain - but the drawback is, well, it takes 2 hours to run.
>> 
>> Perhaps we should use the parallel suite as a "smoke test", but in the event of any failures, revert to a run using the sequential suite?
>> 
> 
> -1, a smoke test should be something that is not only faster but
> always passes, so we could run that on each pull req. Getting a FAIL
> from buildhive on each pull request would get tiring real quick.

Agreed.  I know I have asked for this before, could we please try one more time, to identify *all* tests that are known to periodically fail?  I know the parallel suite doesn't affect *all* tests in the same way.

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