[petsc-dev] broken nightlybuilds (next vs next-tmp)

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2017, Jed Brown wrote:

> > I don't think we have the resources to run full tests on every branch one
> > at a time. Do we?
> 
> No,

Well the hope is - after the migration to new test suite is complete
the cost of a full test run is lower. And we could somehow do fewer
tests to capture most issues.

> and after each merge of a branch to 'master', the prospective merge
> of other branches would need to be retested.  But the idea that the
> automated test suite is infallible is also flawed.

Well arn't we relying on 'automated testing' with the current next
model?

Satish