Re: Parallel test execution: new option `parallel-tests': [1/4]

[Akim Demaille]

Le 18 oct. 08 à 03:19, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit :

> > So we make it TFAIL, which means "should be processed soon".
>
> I'm not sure I understand the additional value of TFAIL.
> You have to mark it anyway, so why not mark it XFAIL?

Because the one who noted the failure must not "bury" it as an XFAIL.   
It is my experience that XFAILures remain for quite a while, until  
someone has time to fix it.  TFAIL is really like "this is a new  
failure, and I don't know what's to be done here".  So someone seeing  
this yellow stuff should either fix it *now*, or make it XFAIL if it's  
not that urgent.

It's really like "Now it's failing, I don't know why, but I don't want  
the people after me believe their current patch could be responsible".

> Put the other way round, what's the value of XFAIL if you
> are effectively going to ignore the expected failures anyway?

Not sure I understand what you mean here.  XFAIL means: TODO.  TFAIL  
means: TO-SORT-NOW-BY-SOMEONE-COMPETENT.