[Development] [HEADS UP] 5.12 locked down (Re: Merge and Integration status report - 2018.11.08)

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Montag, 12. November 2018 22:49:02 CET Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Monday, 12 November 2018 12:38:38 PST Liang Qi wrote:
> > * 10:53am staged 8 changes togehter -
> > http://coin/coin/integration/qt/qtbase/tasks/1543764990 (failed in 53m -
> > tst_QEventDispatcher::registerTimer() on macOS 10.13)
> 
> Thanks for all your effort, Liang. It is much appreciated.
> 
> The above test seems flaky, but increasing the timeout doesn't help. It
> complains that 20 ms wasn't enough, but 20 ms would have been enough. When I
> increased to 50 ms, it prints the same thing but saying 50 ms. There are
> two more failures in the same test.
> 
> So I'm inclined to believe that this is a real failure caused by something
> changing in the event dispatcher code relating to macOS. But the weird thing
> is that it should be running the QEventDispatcherUNIX class...

I would argue the test should be blacklisted at least on macOS 10.13 as a P0 
task. Fixing it can wait.

'Allan