What's up with pull request buildbots?

Brad Anderson eco at gnuk.net
Sun Jun 2 23:15:59 PDT 2013


On Monday, 3 June 2013 at 05:49:22 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:27:12 -0700, Dylan Knutson 
> <tcdknutson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm a bit confused as to how the DMD buildbot is supposed to 
>> work: it seems like 50% of the time (ballparked from the first 
>> 15 or so pull requests), the buildbot just doesn't report 
>> failures or successes. This bugs (heh) me a little bit because 
>> there are tons of months old pull requests just waiting in the 
>> pipeline, stuck at "Determining merge status". I don't know if 
>> this is part of the review process or caused by the yellow 
>> status, but for instance I've opened up a bug report a week or 
>> so prior:
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10113
>> and a few days afterwards, a pull request was submitted:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2080
>> which, turns out, was more or less a dup of another pull 
>> request, submitted 6 months ago:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1358
>
> I'll see if I can't give you a stab at an explanation. Note 
> that I did not write the Auto-Tester, that is the work of Brad 
> Anderson. Here are some facts about the AT as I understand them:

I wish I could take credit for that.  It's the work of the 
awesome Brad Roberts though.


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