[Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 23, 2011, at 07:31 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to add a very fast "smoke test" for the
>> case where you get tripped up on the merge dance floor.  When that happens,
>> you could run your localized tests, and then a set of tests that run in just a
>> minute or two.
>
>What would such a smoke test cover, though? It's hard to think of
>anything particularly useful in the middle ground between "Can you run
>regrtest *at all*?" and "make quicktest".

make quicktest runs 340 tests, and I'm certain many don't need to be run in a
smoke test.  E.g. 

test_aifc
test_colorsys
test_concurrent_futures
(that's as far as it's gotten so far ;)

Or you could time each individual test, choose a cut off for total test run
and then run whatever you can within that time (on some reference machine).
Or maybe just remove the longest running 50% of the quick tests.

-Barry
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