RFC: TestBot priorities

[Gabriel Ivăncescu]

On 03/04/2020 14:39, Zhiyi Zhang wrote:
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> On 4/3/20 6:09 PM, Francois Gouget wrote:
>> On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, Zhiyi Zhang wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I think we can only enable -Werror for patches coming from the
>>> wine-devel.
>> Do you have a concrete proposal?
> We could consider switching to clean build with ccache set up.
> So a separate tree is not needed. That would solve the problem
> of having to wait for nightly VM updates to complete for some
> patches as well since we don't have to update those VMs then.
> This will of course increase the TestBot workload a lot. But should
> be feasible after the 3900x upgrade.
> 
> Thanks,
> Zhiyi
> 
>>
>>> It's indeed making tests more inconvenient. Sometimes, you just want
>>> to comment out a large part of code and only test a specific spot.
>> That's where if (0) comes in.
>>
>>
> 
> 

An alternative is to just print a summary of warnings and not actually 
fail the test because of them. Whoever is interested in the warnings can 
then easily spot them. It requires more work, though.