<div dir="ltr">+1000 :) <div><br></div><div style>That is awesomee !</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Bill Lorensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.lorensen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On January 27, Sean McBride started an e-mail conversation about the<br>state of VTK's dashboards. Although he initiated the conversion about<br>
frustration over gerrit recurring test failures, the conversation<br>quickly moved to the state of VTK software quality.<br>
<br>The following is a highly edited 15 reply e-mail discussion:<br><br>SM: But with VTK, there's pretty much no build machine that's green,<br> and so the "*Tests failing*" section seems to be almost always a list<br>
of false positives (wrt to the patch at hand).Could this email be<br> enhanced to divide the "*Tests failing*" section into 'newly failing'<br> vs 'still failing'?<br><br>DC: We could write tests that pass.<br>
<br>SM: That'd be nice too, but, practically speaking, given the state of<br> the VTK dashboard over the years, I thought my suggestion might be<br> easier, and of course not mutually exclusive to yours<br>
<br>DC: Granted. But it sure would be nice to see it greened up once again<br><br>MH: It would be easier to make them green than try to devise some<br> "baseline of failing tests".<br><br>BL: The quality of vtk code continues to decline... Our vtk community<br>
has lost the will to keep the toolkit at the high quality levels vtk<br> had in the past.<br> We should all be embarrassed.<br><br>DG: Your statement that we test less than 1/2 of the code is false.<br>
There are some dashboard machines (e.g. hythloth) cover much more. I<br> know that I'm being picky with semantics here, but the truth is, we<br> have so many failing tests that the dashboard isn't even able to<br>
produce accurate code quality metrics.<br><br>BL: I agree that there are so many failing tests that we have no idea<br> about the quality of vtk. In the past, we bragged about our<br> process. We cannot do that anymore.<br>
<br>DG: Now the overall issue of developer participation in the code<br> quality process... that's a much bigger issue than the dashboard<br> alone. Is it a mentorship issue, i.e. are new developers not being<br>
taught the "ways of the source"? Are there too many developers,<br> i.e. too many cats to herd?<br><br>DM: So yeah, lets discuss how to and improve our processes, and all<br> chip in like the good team we are to clean up the dashboard. But no I<br>
don't think that anyone should be ashamed of the state of things.<br>-------------------------------------------<br><br>"You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?"<br><br>On January 27,<br>Gerrit: 26 recurring failures<br>
Continuous: 12 recurring failures<br>Nightly Expected: 0 green, 21 red dashboards<br><br>Since January 27, the community started walking again.<br>On March 7,<br>Gerrit: 0 recurring failures<br>Continuous: 0 recurring failures<br>
Nightly Expected: 21 green, 7 red<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Unpaid intern in BillsBasement at noware dot com<br>
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