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Actually add rustc-guide to toolstate, don't fail builds for the guide #62759
Actually add rustc-guide to toolstate, don't fail builds for the guide #62759
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Put this back. This line only verifies that if you have updated
rustc-guide
the test must pass, and thenightly
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I feel it would be beneficial to remove it. If I include
rustc-guide
in an update, but it fails due to some transient error, I would prefer if that didn't fail the build. Generally, I think bad links inrustc-guide
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Disagreed.
If it is really a transient failure you could just
@bors retry
.If the link is an actual bad link it could simply be updated or removed.
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It takes time to investigate why something failed. It involves loading log files. It involves investigating if it is transient or legitimate. It requires time to remove from a PR, and reporting issues. These are all things I do not want to do. Particularly for rustc-guide, which is not really published from here (I love rustc-guide BTW, don't get me wrong). No other documentation checks external links, and I don't think it is a good idea to gate on it.
If it is enforced, I probably won't include rustc-guide in book updates. Someone else can submit updates for it. I apologize for sounding curt, but I just don't want to spend my time on it.
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If we don't care about whether a link failed why do we add a linkchecker? Ignoring the alarm isn't good.
Besides, not gating on it is even worse for debugging since the maintainer of rustc-guide would now need to dig the log archive to get the error message. While with gating at least the Rust-Log-Analyzer could help you extract the relevant logs. If you don't want to investigate you could just mention the rustc-guide maintainer. Since other books are already gated on doc-tests you do need to investigate the log to find out which book is broken anyway.
Furthermore you seem to be exaggerating the probability of spurious external link failure.
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The status is saved in the local toolstate file by the call to
x.py test
at the top of the file (save-toolstates
is set inconfig.toml
). The publishing is done at the bottom (commit_toolstate_change
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So @ehuss @mark-i-m how can we proceed here? Personally I agree with @kennytm and, as @mark-i-m said, "not gating update PRs on this might be less helpful because the status would just remain broken". If a PR updates this submodule and tests still don't pass, surely something is wrong with that PR?
If you have spuriously failing tests, the precedent with RLS is to disable/ignore those tests on your side so that at least the other tests can still do their job.
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As I said, I'm fine adding it back and seeing how it goes. I just don't want to spend much time dealing with failures going forward.
I personally don't think a failure indicates a problem with the PR. It just indicates the problem hasn't been fixed, yet. A PR that updates a broken rustc-guide when it remains broken doesn't make the problem worse, it's already broken. Making me take time to remove it from the PR doesn't magically make it fixed, it just takes my time, with no benefit for anyone.
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They way I see it, allowing tools/doctests to fail at all is a concession to the fact that synchronized updates are hard. But really a failing tool is not an acceptable state. If you are updating a tool and your tests are failing, that should be rejected just like when you are updating rustc and tests are failing.
Making sure tests pass is not a waste of time, it is a basic part of software maintenance.
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Thank you :) I will add it back. If it fails again, feel free to just drop rustc-guide and I can investigate.
Yes, this is the approach I have been taking with rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide#388. Also, Michael-F-Bryan re-wrote the linkchecker to take better advantage of caching, and maybe it will have more flexible handling of timeouts and server errors later too, so hopefully spurious failures will be less common in the future too.