Buildbot failure in Wildebeest Builder on whole buildset

[cohenarthur.dev]

On 21/08/06 03:31PM, Philip Herron wrote:
> On 04/08/2021 21:25, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 03:15:00PM +0000, buildbot@builder.wildebeest.org wrote:
> >> The Buildbot has detected a new failure on builder gccrust-debian-arm64 while building gccrust.
> >> Full details are available at:
> >>     https://builder.wildebeest.org/buildbot/#builders/58/builds/270
> >>
> >> Buildbot URL: https://builder.wildebeest.org/buildbot/
> >>
> >> Worker for this Build: debian-arm64
> >>
> >> Build Reason: <unknown>
> >> Blamelist: CohenArthur <arthur.cohen@epita.fr>
> >>
> >> BUILD FAILED: failed compile (failure)
> > This commit (and the following 3) were really bad. They didn't build.
> > Apparently bors doesn't check commit individually, but the buildbot
> > does build every commit separately.

Really sorry about this.

> > The tree is buildable again, but I think it would be good to not have
> > any commits that break the build.
> >
> > Periodically broken trees make it also hard to bisect issues.
> >
> > Is it possible to make bors check all commits in a series? Or can we
> > somehow connect the buildbot workers to the bors checks?

I think bors is mostly focused on having the latest commit on the main
branch always build, but I might be wrong on this. I think it should be
possible to integrate buildbot to the CI on github directly, side to
side with bors.

> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> Hi Mark,
>
> I think the build-bot checks for every commit is a really nice feature
> here. I think you should keep the build-bots as are. I really like to
> make sure each of my commits are build-able and pass tests. It keeps me
> honest to avoid regressions as best I can.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks
>
> --Phil
>

I'm really sorry about not having all the commits build. I tried to keep
them as atomic as possible and clearly didn't check all of them
separately. This could have been a single commit and would have avoided
this, but since each change was big I decided to split them up.

I was not aware that buildbot checks every commit separately. I think
this is a good feature, and I'll keep it in mind. Won't happen again!

Sorry again,

--
Arthur