Re: When to commit failing tests (was: Re: svn commit: r17032 - trunk/subversion/tests/clients/cmdline)

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> --On October 26, 2005 8:24:45 PM +0200 "Peter N. Lundblad"
> <peter@famlundblad.se> wrote:
>
> > The problem with your approach is that it slows down things for everyone
> > else. When I want to run tests and get a failure, I have to examine and
> > dscover that it was just that other regression that still fails. If I made
> > a commit, I have to examine the nightly failure mails, because I can't
> > just assume that it is your test that fail. I think that's a waste of
> > time.
>
> If you're annoyed by the failing test, then you can fix the bug. -- justin
>
Crap! Fixing 1.4 regressions has far less priority than fixing, say, an
1.3.x problem. And I don't like to be "forced" to fix particular bugs.

Thanks,
//Peter

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Received on Wed Oct 26 21:29:10 2005