questions about validating in the presence of known failures

[Nicolas Frisby]

Your amendment to the wiki page is very helpful. In particular, it totally
supplants my suggestion about "known unexpecteds".

Thanks.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:23:26AM -0500, Nicolas Frisby wrote:
> >
> > Question 2: Can we add another bit to unexpected results marking them as
> > known/unknown?
>
> Unexpected results are all unknown. If they're known then they're
> expected results.
>
> I've just written this on how to deal with validate failures not caused
> by local patches:
>
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TestingPatches#ValidatehasfailingtestswithoutanylocalpatcheswhatdoIdo
>
> > Question 3: What's the status on the build bot farm?
>
> I hope to do some work on this soon, e.g. add a way for build results to
> be uploaded to the server by the builders. However, I've been spending
> my time on more pressing matters recently.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
>
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