Comment 6 for bug 419689

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Gavin Panella
<email address hidden> wrote:
> After spending a huge amount of time over the last week staring at and
> resubmitting branches to land via ec2, I would like to second the
> proposal to run against stable by default. I know I'm not the only one
> feeling the pain this week.
>
> Jono has said that there have been an unusual number of bad landings
> to devel this week, so maybe this is an abberation. However, it has
> lost me a lot of time. Cumulatively, across the whole team, each time
> this kind of abberation happens, this loss of productivity could be
> greater than the value of integration testing with the very latest
> landings to devel. Testing with the very most recent landings to devel
> also does not guarantee a successful devel -> stable merge.
>
> I think an experiment to use stable in ec2 would be worthwhile. In
> case of a bad landing or an integration failure, the merge from devel
> to stable will stop the line soon enough, at which point anyone on the
> team can fix it.

If you want to experiment, I think you can do this right now is you
use 'test' instead of 'land':

utilities/ec2 test -b launchpad=stable -s '[r=foo]. ..'

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