Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 07:01:47 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Julio Merino <jmmv@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Should we MFC tests into stable/10? Message-ID: <43135FE5-5A9D-4AD5-B65F-E6FC20B9E366@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFY7cWCVx4twoaphPnRriYvRAY%2BKHHG3hDMGTJiD=xdeT25feg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFY7cWCVx4twoaphPnRriYvRAY%2BKHHG3hDMGTJiD=xdeT25feg@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Mar 6, 2014, at 6:26, Julio Merino <jmmv@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > Hello all, >=20 > Keeping the testing infrastructure in sync between current and > stable/10 is, in my opinion, a worthy goal. For that reason, I have > (finally) pulled up a bunch of related pending changes into the branch > today and will continue to do so for upcoming improvements. >=20 > However, I would like to gather your opinion on what to do about the > tests themselves. >=20 > Do you think it's worth keeping the tests between current and > stable/10 in sync wherever possible? Because we have barely just > started adding tests, this will certainly involve quite a bit of churn > in MFCs -- but that's probably not a big deal. The tricky^Winteresting > cases will come when tests start failing in only one of the two > branches :-P >=20 > My opinion is now leaning towards merging everything where it makes > sense. What's yours? You're probably going to run into similar problems that devs run into when M= FCing code. It depends on whether or not the tests require a specific piece of build/tes= t infrastructure, and whether or not the tests exercise a new feature or fix= /change behavior. The former case is trickier as there will be breaking points for things in t= he future, but the latter case is pretty straightforward (devs should be mer= ging tests back with code changes for new features/behavior). I vote yes for stable/10 now, but I would be wary of future merges as head a= nd stable/(head-1) diverge, and similarly stable/(head-2).=
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