Status of GitHub automatic tier1 testing

[Kevin Rushforth]

Isn't this only run if the branch you push to has an open pull request? 
The way I had imagined this working, is that it would run the test as 
soon as you create a PR (even a Draft PR).

If it actually runs a build and tier 1 tests on every push to any branch 
of everyone's personal fork, then it might be better to make it an 
explicit "opt in".

-- Kevin


On 10/2/2020 6:48 AM, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02.10.20 15:41, Robin Westberg wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
>   thanks for your effort.
>
> I would like to ask for a way to opt out - the public personal may 
> receive unfinished work that may not even compile in a lot of cases. 
> So this pre-checking seems like a waste of cpu time in a lot of cases 
> and another notification I do not want in my inbox.
>
> After the fifth or so a day I'll probably just ignore it anyway.
>
> Also there are a significant amount of pushes that are done just 
> fixing a typo in a comment or such, again wasting time.
>
> I can somewhat understand such testing for different situations.
>
> Thanks,
>   Thomas