[Python-Dev] Trimming the fat from "make quicktest" (was Re: I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?)

[Georg Brandl]

On 23.03.2011 18:10, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2011, at 05:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
>>That's completely bogus. There's no reason to believe that a push race would
>>favour certain regressions over certain others. Again, you need the full test
>>suite to assert that no regressions occured.  (or you might as well run 10
>>tests at random and call it done)
> 
> If you promote the full test suite as the thing to run when resolving merge
> races, then I predict no one will run them, because doing so increases your
> chances of hitting *another* push race.  This whole thread came up in the
> context of trying to find a quick test you could run in that case which didn't
> increase that race window.  I think the practical effect of not having a
> simple, fast smoke test will be to do *less* testing when you hit the merge
> race, and just let the buildbots sort it all out.  You'll probably win most of
> the time anyway.

FWIW, +1 to this.

Georg