[vtk-developers] cdash/gerrit emails about failing tests...

[Sean McBride]

Hi all,

When you submit something to gerrit it helpfully builds your patch on a few machines and emails you the build/test results.  Like this:

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Project: VTK
Site: kamino.kitware
Build Name: Mac-Unknown-64-gcc-4.2.1-T2011misc-clang-analyzer-fixes-1
Build Time: 2013-01-28T10:01:44 EST
Type: Gerrit
Tests failing: 4


*Tests failing*
vtkRenderingOpenGLCxx-TestShadowMapPass (http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=157951653&build=2789252)
vtkRenderingCoreCxx-TestSplitViewportStereoHorizontal (http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=175290383&build=2789252)
vtkRenderingHybridOpenGLCxx-SurfaceLIC (http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=175290384&build=2789252)
vtkRenderingOpenGLCxx-TestOffAxisStereo (http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=175290421&build=2789252)
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But with VTK, there's pretty much no build machine that's green, and so the "*Tests failing*" section seems to be almost always a list of false positives (wrt to the patch at hand).

Could this email be enhanced to divide the "*Tests failing*" section into 'newly failing' vs 'still failing'?  That would be most helpful...

Cheers,

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Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada