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known_fail should not be seen as a build success

Open kencu opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

when a port sets known_fail on a system version, it should be displayed as a fail in the webapp, not a success

kencu avatar Jun 23 '22 14:06 kencu

I'd prefer that we have a 3rd status - like "not supported," or something akin to that - to differentiate from a simple success/failure.

Anyone else... thoughts?

mascguy avatar Jun 23 '22 15:06 mascguy

Anything but success

kencu avatar Jun 23 '22 19:06 kencu

AFAIK, you currently see the grey question mark for known_fail ports, since no build takes place. An indicator that it is known to fail rather than just not built would be nice.

Of course if there was a successful build of a previous version, #135 will be in effect.

jmroot avatar Jun 23 '22 22:06 jmroot

Similarly, if there was at least one build failure prior to setting known_fail, that will also be in effect.

And that can be a bit frustrating, when drilling down the dependency tree.

mascguy avatar Jun 25 '22 17:06 mascguy

AFAIK, you currently see the grey question mark for known_fail ports, since no build takes place. An indicator that it is known to fail rather than just not built would be nice.

Only if no build of that port (any version) has ever taken place on that builder. If a build has taken place in the past, then that information is displayed by the web app even if it is outdated. Ideally the web app would not display outdated information.

ryandesign avatar Dec 28 '22 01:12 ryandesign

Yes, hence the reference to #135.

jmroot avatar Dec 28 '22 02:12 jmroot