<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 2:04 PM, David Cole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DLRdave@aol.com" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=DLRdave@aol.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">DLRdave@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">On a not unrelated note...<br>
<br>
Since this set of updates:<br>
<a href="https://open.cdash.org/viewChanges.php?project=CDash&date=2015-10-07" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://open.cdash.org/viewChanges.php?project=CDash&date=2015-10-07</a><br>
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80+ tests are failing persistently on multiple submitters every night<br>
on the CDash dashboard.<br>
<br>
Are any of the 3 authors involved (you, Patrick Reynolds and Jamie<br>
Snape) planning to fix these test failures?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This update introduced a new installation step that the site maintainers will need to perform:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/Kitware/CDash#installation">https://github.com/Kitware/CDash#installation</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Even before that, there were a handful of persistently failing tests<br>
on several dashboard submitters.<br>
<br>
I know from painful experience that it is difficult to diagnose CDash<br>
test failures sometimes, but the current state of the system would<br>
appear to be quite miserable. Only 1 out of 85 tests passes on the<br>
machine I'm submitting a dashboard from.....<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's true that there's still a couple flaky tests floating around, but hopefully we'll be able to fix these up. The goal is to be get trustworthy pass/fail results from CircleCI whenever a pull request is created.</div></div></div></div>