[Gluster-devel] good job on fixing heavy hitters in spurious regressions

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On 05/08/2015 05:27 PM, Jeff Darcy wrote:
>> I think we should remove "if it is a known bad test treat it as success"
>> code in some time and never add it again in future.
> I disagree.  We were in a cycle where a fix for one bad regression test
> would be blocked because of others, so it was impossible to make any
> progress at all.  The cycle had to be broken somehow.  What we should
> really do next time is get more people involved sooner when regression
> tests are broken.  That way we'd never get into the "death spiral" and
> no drastic action would be necessary.
Thanks for that effort!, I was talking about the plan for future, not 
what has been done. Anyways people seem to like the idea that they can 
look at the tests in that file to know if the test is bad or not, so may 
be it will live on.

Pranith