Re: [matplotlib-devel] Usefulness of Travis-CI

[Ryan M. <rm...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Damon McDougall
<dam...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Recently, it has become more and more common that the travis builds
> fail.  They fail not because the test suite fails but because of some
> inherent issues with travis itself.  Usually, either the git clone
> fails or some other simple shell command fails.  I consider these
> 'failures' as being false negatives.  While a false negative once or
> twice a month would not be anything to worry about, I feel like this
> is happening often enough to render the pull request status extremely
> unhelpful.
>

I haven't been active enough lately to have a good feel overall on the
false negatives. What I can say right now is that it would help if we would
disable python 3.1 (and optionally replace it with 3.3). I believe (based
on numpy commit I saw the other day) that Travis no longer supports 3.1.
That would solve the failures I've seen with my PR's.

Ryan

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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma