[infinispan-dev] Infinispan 7.1 plan

[Emmanuel Bernard]

No shower and no beer until the next fully green result (including
tests left over as unstable). That should be motivating enough ;)

On Tue 2014-10-21 13:35, Sebastian Łaskawiec wrote:
> On 10/21/2014 12:47 PM, Dan Berindei wrote:
> >In fact, I was volunteered to monitor the TeamCity test results and create
> >a blocker issue for each failing test some time ago, but finding the
> >proper owner for bugs proved to be quite time consuming so I haven't been
> >sticking to it. This thread did motivate me to create a few new blocker
> >issues, however :)
> I believe we need to change our strategy in this point. We don't want to
> create new issues - we want to motivate everybody to fix it (and fix it
> fast). As I said - when the failure gets into our repo - all successive Pull
> Requests will start to fail. Nobody will be able to integrate his changes
> and everybody (not everybody - some guys which are in hurry) will probably
> want to unblock themselves... The easiest way to do that is to fix the
> build...
> 
> This is the main idea... To make failing test a serious problem and not just
> another "easy to ignore" issue...
> >Of course, the question is how we are going to achieve that magical clean
> >build status...
> I've got some idea - it's pretty controversial, but maybe you will like it
> :)
> 
>  * Remove every failing test from our code base - just delete it (no
>    ignoring, no adding to separate testsuite - just delete).
>  * Create separate branch and place all those tests there - simply
>    revert commit which removed them from master.
>  * Organize failed-test-bounty with our Community - ask them to fix as
>    many as possible during fixed amount of time (a month or two? maybe
>    shorter?).
>  * Every contributor in failed-test-bounty will be listed in "Thanks"
>    section of the release notes
>  * After the bounty is over, we'll just delete tests which were not
>    fixed...
> 
> 

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