Windows testsuite failures

[Phyx]

Oh I spent a non-insignificant amount of time back in the phabricator days
to make the CI stable. Now because people were committing to master
directly without going through CI it was always a cat and mouse game and I
gave up eventually.

Now we have rewritten the CI and it's pointing out actual issues in the
compiler. And your suggestion is well let's just ignore it.

How about you use some of that energy to help I stead of taking the easy
way? And I bet you're going to say you don't care about Windows to which I
would say I don't care about the non-threaded runtime and wish we would get
rid of it. But can't always get what you want.

And to say we'll actually fix anything before release doesn't align with
what I've seen so far, which had me scrambling last minute to ensure we can
release Windows instead of making releases without it.

Quite frankly I don't need you to tell me to submit MRs to fix it since
that's what I spent again a lot of time doing. Or maybe you would like to
pay my paycheck so I can spend more than a considerable amount of my free
time on it.

Kind regards,
Tamar


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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 06:17 Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com> wrote:

> We release more often than once in 6 months.
>
> We clearly have no idea how to test on Windows. If you know how to do it
> then
> feel free to submit a MR. Otherwise blocking every MR indefinitely is
> worse than
> testing Windows less frequently.
>
> Ömer
>
> Phyx <lonetiger at gmail.com>, 17 Oca 2020 Cum, 09:10 tarihinde şunu yazdı:
> >
> > Sure because only testing once every 6 months is a very very good idea...
> >
> > Sent from my Mobile
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 06:03 Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Ben,
> >>
> >> Can we please disable Windows CI? I've spent more time fighting the CI
> than
> >> doing useful work this week, it's really frustrating.
> >>
> >> Since we have no idea how to fix it maybe we should test Windows only
> before a
> >> release, manually (and use bisect in case of regressions).
> >>
> >> Ömer
> >>
> >> Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>, 14 Oca 2020 Sal, 14:30 tarihinde
> şunu yazdı:
> >> >
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > Currently Windows CI is a bit flaky due to some unfortunately rather
> elusive testsuite driver bugs. Progress in resolving this has been a bit
> slow due to travel over the last week but I will be back home tomorrow and
> should be able to resolve the issue soon thereafter.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >
> >> > - Ben
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