[Development] CI failing regularly

Laszlo Papp lpapp at kde.org
Thu Aug 22 10:10:52 CEST 2013


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Nicolás Alvarez
<nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com>wrote:

> > In the long run if we want to have a mechanism that detects what has
> been changed and which tests should be run, then we need to start designing
> it. How would it work?
>
> I don't think you can reliably figure out when a test is or isn't
> relevant to a change. And the only good reason to do it is if the
> tests take too long. If unrelated tests fail, they should be *fixed*,
> not skipped when they aren't relevant to the change.
>

Yes, in an ideal world ... However, sometimes people need to become
pragmatic to get things done step by step.
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