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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Nov 2017, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>
> > >
> > > BTW: Ultimlately if you want to improve current next model - everyone
> > > has to do a 'make alltests DIFF=$PETSC_DIR/bin/petscdiff' for atleast
> > > one build that has relavent feature options enabled - before merging
> > > the feature branch to next.
> > >
>
> > This does not agree with my experience (I think) for bug finding. It
> > tends to be other architectures (complex, 64-bit int, fortran) that
> > fail for me, which means running that for many builds, and my laptop
> > is just not capable, and furthermore that is why we have a farm of
> > machines.
>
> Your laptop is just an excuse. You can do it on cg.mcs or other
> machines. Infact you can run one of the complex or 64-bit tests
> manually on cg.
>

And that makes my point. The time for me to login to cg, set everything up,
and
run the tests should be automated, and in fact we already did that for
next, which
is what should be used.

  Matt


> My point here is - there are quiet a few issues 'make alltests' would
> have found before merge to next [and should be fixed.]
>
> Sure 'next' testing with all the variations do find other various
> issues.
>
> Skipping the first step - and using next for that basic testing just
> breaks it more - and things stay broken longer [and takes everyone
> elses time to figure out what broke next].
>
> And everyone thinks someone else broken next - and its stays broken
> for weeks..
>
> Satish
>



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