From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>, osstest-admin@xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [xen-4.6-testing test] 65112: regressions - FAIL
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:04:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1448633097.13576.93.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22104.24110.92773.236379@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 13:44 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Eg, consider these flights:
>
> 100 is now master A pass, B pass pushed
> 200 staging A pass, B fail `B REGR. vs 100'
> 201 staging A fail, B not run `B fail in 200 REGR. vs 100'
>
> In flight 201, the failure of A is indeed justifiable as a heisenbug
> because it can be seen to succeed in flight 200. It is the problem
> with B which is actually blocking the push - it is merely that the
> failure occurred in flight 200.
This example really helped clarify things for me, thanks.
I don't know if this is the sort of thing which could fit into a doc
somewhere (maybe README.email could have some of these kinds of worked
examples?)
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-26 17:27 [xen-4.6-testing test] 65112: regressions - FAIL osstest service owner
2015-11-27 8:18 ` Jan Beulich
2015-11-27 9:53 ` Ian Campbell
2015-11-27 12:02 ` Ian Jackson
2015-11-27 12:28 ` Ian Campbell
2015-11-27 12:35 ` Jan Beulich
2015-11-27 13:25 ` Ian Jackson
2015-11-27 13:24 ` Ian Jackson
2015-11-27 14:03 ` Ian Campbell
2015-11-27 14:07 ` Ian Campbell
2015-11-27 12:52 ` Jan Beulich
2015-11-27 13:44 ` Ian Jackson
2015-11-27 14:04 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-11-27 14:59 ` [xen-4.6-testing test] 65112: regressions - FAIL [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson
2015-11-27 15:38 ` [OSSTEST PATCH] README.email: Add `Worked example of relevant regression in previous flight' Ian Jackson
2015-11-27 15:48 ` Ian Campbell
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