RFC: TestBot priorities

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> [...]
> > Even the patches from wine-devel should not be punished by a simple testing
> > service. It should do its job of running the tests, everything else is not
> > its business.
> 
> You need to remember the point of the TestBot: it is to automate testing 
> of the patches so Alexandre can save time by not having to deal with 
> patches that are wrong.

That's a somewhat distorted vision of the original Wine testbot: run
the tests, and do this job the best way it could do.

> That means:
> * Verifying the patch applies using the same parameters (fuzzy) that 
>   Alexandre uses.
> * Verifying that the patch compiles the way Alexandre wants.
> * Verifying that the patch does not introduce new failures.
> 
> If any of these applies different criteria from what Alexandre does then 
> it means he has to manually duplicate the work of the TestBot.

Are there no other priorites so it's started to look like a project of
some really strange and random things? Is it possible to make testbot
really useful for *developers*? Otheriwise posting priority requests
to wine-devel seem to be a waste of time, if the target tesbot audience
is actually only Alexandre.

-- 
Dmitry.