Bug 212764 – [EWS] Should be able to specify a subset of ports when posting patches to fix port builds

• Status: NEW
• Component: Tools / Tests

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Should be able to specify a subset of ports when posting patches to fix port builds.

It's a waste of resources to post patches just to find out if you've fixed all the compiler errors for a subset of ports.

It would be nice if there was a way to specify which port(s) a patch should be run on so EWS doesn't spend time building and running tests on patches meant to test build fixes.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I'm skeptical about this. This would make it really difficult to tell if EWS was green. And I don't know how much EWS should trust engineer's opinion that they didn't break anything unexpectedly.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to Alexey Proskuryakov from comment #1)
> I'm skeptical about this. This would make it really difficult to tell if EWS
> was green. And I don't know how much EWS should trust engineer's opinion
> that they didn't break anything unexpectedly.

We could use a different color for bubbles with skipped platforms.

This would not be used for the "final" patch for review; only for intermediate patches where an engineer is trying to make a patch compile for a port that they don't have access to build.

Obviously this requires some trust, but marking skipped platforms with a different color would make this pretty obvious.  Maybe commit-queue could refuse to commit a patch with skipped platforms, too.

Of course, maybe developers would be too lazy to use this anyway, so implementing it wouldn't be useful.  :)