Why are tests restarting in Github?

Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Apr 24 20:56:02 PDT 2016


On 25/04/2016 5:44 AM, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 24.04.2016 21:26, tcak wrote:
>> There are 10 test. Some of them gets completed. And then, I look at it
>> again, tests have restarted, and less number of tests are passed at that
>> point.
>>
>> 1. What is the reason of restarts?
>
> Something else has been pulled. That changes the code that's being
> tested, so all tests need to restarted.
>
>> 2. What is reason of long waiting time? Sometimes number of passed tests
>> stay there 2-3 days.
>
> The pull request is probably not a priority for the auto-tester. Pull
> requests that have been marked for auto-merging have priority over
> others. I'm not sure, but the auto-tester may also prioritize requests
> with recent activity over older ones.

Yes, if you rebase and force-push your pull will be put at the top of 
the list.


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