Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/5] Build OVMF for Xen-unstable

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 19:31 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH RFC 2/5] Build OVMF for Xen-unstable"):
> > On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 17:38 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > I think it is OK to arrange this to go in right away.
> > 
> > This has some subset of the same risks as the patch to enable it by
> > default (i.e. it causes grief in the push gate) -- it might be wise at
> > this stage of the release to involve George in these sorts of decisions
> > for osstest?
> 
> If it causes grief in the push gate, it will only be a problem for the
> release process if that grief is nondeterministic - since osstest has
> its own push gate for its own code.

Yes, my concern was that it would make it into the main osstest system
and then cause spurious failures and get in the way etc. That's as much
a risk to the release process as any other code change I think.

> If it causes grief in the osstest self-push-gate, I can revert it.

Or indeed if it turns out to cause grief in the system once pushed.

Ian.


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