[Buildbot-devel] buildbot tests fail on "master"

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:21:32 -0500, "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin at zmanda.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Gary Poster <gary.poster at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 11:04 -0500, Gary Poster wrote:
>>> I made a branch of Dustin's "master" for my latent slave work.  I ran
>>> tests before starting work to make sure the tests were in a good state
>>> for me.  They were not, as you can see below.
>
>Yeah, there was as commit a while back that re-ordered email addresses
>in the mail notifier, and broke the tests.  I just haven't gotten
>around to fixing the tests yet.  Thanks for noticing, though!

How do you know you reordered them right if you don't have passing tests
to tell you so?  Or do lots of tests which are largely unrelated to the
changed code fail due to poor separation of concerns?  How do you do any
further development with all those failing tests?  Why isn't keeping the
test suite completely passing the top development process concern?

Of course, it's not me doing any of this work, but it's rather discouraging
to hear that this is how buildbot's future is going to be built.

Jean-Paul