Re: having trouble with the test runner

Lots of things depend upon it...   I don't really think manifest generation
is broken... it just takes a REALLY LONG TIME.  We have a number of ways to
optimize it.  Just need to pick one and implement it.  I have a branch
somewhere that I could dig back into.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <foolip@google.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 18:51 James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote:
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>> On 16/10/17 17:30, John Jansen wrote:
>> > I was trying to use the test runner[1] over the weekend. Unfortunately,
>> during the 'updating and loading test manifest...' stage, it seems to hang.
>> I've tried on multiple machines now and waited for over an hour.
>> >
>> > Is there an active bug on this? Anyone know what's going on with it?
>>
>> The manifest generation is rather broken and quite often hangs. No one
>> is really working on it; ideally you either volunteer or use the
>> wptrunner infrastructure (i.e. wpt run) that is actually maintained and
>> more reliable :)
>>
>
> Are there bugs about this? Should we remove the broken mechanism or does
> anyone successfully depend on it?
>
>>


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Shane McCarron
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