Status of GitHub automatic tier1 testing

[Robin Westberg]

Hi all,

As you may have noticed when pushing changes to your personal forks recently, GitHub will now automatically trigger basic tier1 testing on the supported platforms (currently Linux, Windows and macOS, all x64). If all goes well you may not even notice it as it defaults to sending a notification only if anything should fail.

However, please note that the first version of this automatic test execution contained a problem that could cause it to not detect failing test cases. I know there have been a few test errors that have gone by unnoticed due to this for which I’m sorry. The good news is that the problem is now fixed starting with https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/7dcdc1fbdd9d5b21253537ee59dd70f4e8f3d002 - so make sure that your branch contains this change if you plan to look at the test results!

Apart from this there are now no known issues with these pre-submit tests, so if you run into any problem, please let me know. If these tests turn out to be reasonably stable and trustworthy, the next step will be to present a summary of the results in the body of PRs to make them more visible.

Best regards,
Robi