[Vm-dev] hiearchy of build stages

[Alistair Grant]

Hi Nicolas,

Good idea.  If the build order can't be controlled...  I thought
newspeak builds had been tagged so that they didn't cause the whole
job to fail.  Maybe sista, lowcode and v3 builds could be marked the
same?

Cheers,
Alistair


On 2 April 2018 at 15:25, Nicolas Cellier
<nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> there are lot of jobs at each opensmalltalk-vm commit like
> https://travis-ci.org/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/builds/361159455
>
> some of these jobs are of vital importance beacuse candidates for production, some have less because rather experimental (sista lowcode) or backward compatibility (v3).
>
> If ever it's technically possible, which I didn't check, could we agree at least on the order of build stages so that we build candidates for production first and at least know if commits have an impact on these?
> Currently, a single failure of experimental brand will cut the whole feedback.
>
> It's more a temporary workaround than a long term solution, but let's make small steps, or we'll never see any progress.
>
> Nicolas
>