On Dec 19, 2007 4:33 PM, Raymond Hettinger
The bots are kicking-off so many false alarms that it is becoming difficult to tell whether a check-in genuinely broke a build.
At the root of the problem is a number of tests in the test suite that randomly blow-up. I now tend to automatically dismiss failures in test_logging and test_threading for example.
Yeah, certain tests need some TLC to make them more predictable and less prone to throw a failure because of some touch race condition or something on the machine was not available to make the test work. As I have stated on my blog, once I am done with importlib and the stdlib reorg I plan on working on dev docs and then attack the whole structure of the unit tests. But who knows when that will happen. =) -Brett