wiki:WebKitGTK/KeepingTheTreeGreen

Version 66 (modified by ltilve@igalia.com, 11 years ago) ( diff )

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(courtesy of Martin Robinson, who introduced the notion of Garderner in WebKit world of fame)

  1. Keep the tree green: the gardener on a given day will diagnose all bot redness and try to form a hypothesis for each failure. In my experience there are several types of failures:
    1. The GTK+ port is lacking some feature or has a bug: In this case the gardener will figure out exactly what the problem is, open a bug with as much information as possible including test diffs and links to relevant bugs. The gardener will CC any people involved in WebKitGTK+ who would might know how to fix the problem.
    2. A test is exposing a general WebKit bug that only GTK+ triggers (often the case with JavaScriptCore and inspector tests): In this case the gardener will leave a comment on the original bug with the test diff or stack trace (for something like an assertion failure) and offer to gather more information for the original patch author (even resorting to debugging directly on the bots if it cannot be reproduced locally).
    3. A test is missing expectations or needs new expectations: The gardener will generate new expectations after verifying that the tests seem to work when run manually or by looking at the expected results.
    4. A DRT feature is missing: The gardener will open a bug. The idea is that we will completely avoid skipped tests with no information about the failure.
  1. If the tree isn't red, the gardener should be able to choose how to spend the day:
    1. Generating results for tests that do not have results (soon this will include pixel results as well).
    2. Diagnosing and opening bugs for failures that do not have open bugs (there's a huge list). This also includes unskipping tests that are passing.
    3. Implementing missing DRT features. There are a ton of these and we need to kill them. Using DRTSupportGtk we can do it without making API decisions.
  1. At the end of the day the gardener should keep a very simple log for tomorrow's gardener, so he/she can follow up with any pending investigations. This will also help us keep track of newly skipped tests. See the Gardening log entry at the bottom of this wiki page.

Check also chrome gardening instructions: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/webkit-gardening

Gardening schedule

Day Gardener
Tue 03 Jun
Wed 04 Jun clopez
Thu 05 Jun
Fri 06 Jun
Sat 07 Jun
Sun 08 Jun ltilve
Mon 09 Jun
Tue 10 Jun
Wed 11 Jun
Thu 12 Jun
Fri 13 Jun
Sat 14 Jun
Sun 15 Jun
Mon 16 Jun
Tue 17 Jun
Wed 18 Jun
Thu 19 Jun
Fri 20 Jun
Sat 21 Jun
Sun 22 Jun
Mon 23 Jun
Tue 24 Jun
Wed 25 Jun
Thu 26 Jun
Fri 27 Jun
Sat 28 Jun
Sun 29 Jun
Mon 30 Jun
Tue 01 Jul
Wed 02 Jul
Thu 03 Jul

Gardening log

  • Please put new log entries at the top.

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- ltilve@igalia.com - Wed Jun 11 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- clopez@igalia.com - Wed Jun 04 2014

Done:

-- ltilve@igalia.com - Thu May 21 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- eocanha@igalia.com - Fri May 16 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- clopez@igalia.com - Thu May 15 2014

Done:

-- ltilve@igalia.com - Thu May 13 2014

Done:

-- ltilve@igalia.com - Thu May 7 2014

Done:

-- clopez@igalia.com - Thu May 01 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- clopez@igalia.com - Thu May 01 2014

Done:

-- ltilve@igalia.com - Thu Apr 29 2014

Done:

-- calvaris@igalia.com - Thu Apr 28 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- eocanha@igalia.com - Fri Apr 25

Done:

Notes:

  • If you notice that a test started failing on r167754 it could be because
    of the removal of the XVFB_SCREEN_DEPTH=8 variable. Let me know that
    or update http://webkit.org/b/132126

-- clopez@igalia.com - Thu Apr 24 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- elima@igalia.com - Thu Apr 24 2014

Done:

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  • Check the remaining failures.

-- ltilve@igalia.com - Mon Apr 22 2014

Done:

Pending:

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-- clopez@igalia.com - Mon Apr 21 2014

Done:

-- elima@igalia.com - Thu Apr 17 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- aperez@igalia.com - Wed Apr 16 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- clopez@igalia.com - Wed Apr 16 2014

Done:

Pending:

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-- ltilve@igalia.com - Tue Apr 15 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- elima@igalia.com - Fri Apr 14 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- clopez@igalia.com - Fri Apr 11 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- eocanha@igalia.com - Fri Apr 11 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- clopez@igalia.com - Thu Apr 10 2014

Done:

  • Checked the status of garden-o-matic:
    • Works fine for WebKitGTK+ port when using a Git clone.
    • Usage instructions in the Rebaseline page.

aperez@igalia.com - Wed 9 Apr 2014

Done:

Pending:

  • Check the remaining failures.

-- clopez@igalia.com - Tue Apr 8 2014

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