AW: AW: Build failures on master?!

[Matt Caswell]

On 18/11/2019 22:39, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre wrote:
>>> Yes I know. I was just counting the last consecutive failures. What actually wonders
>>> me is the fact that the tests do not fail throughout. In between there are always short
>>> periods where the tests succced. Why is this?
>>
>> Really? I don't see that. The travis dashboard shows red for as far back
>> as I checked:
>>
>> https://travis-ci.org/openssl/openssl/builds
>>
> 
> Interesting. I was just scrolling down the commits in the timeline of master:
> 
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/master
> 
> there are a lot of (clickable) red crosses next to the commits.
> 
> The last commits without red crosses are some of yours:
> 
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/11d876df50d90ec4b26364c4b7d317ea19139e13
> 
> Note that they don't show any sign of success, only the red cross is missing.
> 
> I have no idea what the difference between those commits with and without red crosses is,
> if travis is failing all the time.

If you push a whole bunch of commits all at the same time (e.g. because
a PR contains more than one commit), then I think travis only runs for
the most recent HEAD and skips the intervening commits.

Matt