I find codecov useful, but I almost always turn that comment off, as you can see here: https://github.com/pganssle/zoneinfo/blob/1bdc68b447fa84faf41cb86d7816ab06fa...
I think it defaults to on and has a way of occasionally failing in such a way that it fires anyway, but this is very occasional in my experience.
I think we should definitely turn it off - the little github webhooks are enough to give you the information you want, and I find it very spammy.
On 3/2/20 11:13 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
Hi,
There is a new "CodeCov" thing on Python pull requests which adds a giant comment with many numbers and statistics and then mark my pull request as "failed" (red).
I know the concept of code coverage, ok. But who uses this service? Does it *have to* send emails to say:
"Merging #18743 into master will increase coverage by 0.00%. The diff coverage is n/a."
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18743#issuecomment-593426007
My PR changes distutils, but the comment also says "Lib/ftplib.py 63.85% <0.00%> (-6.06%)". The service doesn't seem reliable. A distutils change should have no impact on ftplib coverage. Or someone should explain me how it's supposed to work.
https://devguide.python.org/coverage/ says nothing about CodeCov.
Would it be possible to disable this service?
Or can I opt-out somehow to no longer get emails from it nor see such comments on my PRs?
Victor