What to do after build failure on Gerrit submission?

Noel Grandin noelgrandin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 06:10:13 PDT 2015


On 2015-03-18 03:01 PM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> About a week ago I submitted a patch to gerrit (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/14841/). However, the build failed on Windows, due to a unit test failing. I looked in the log file and it seems to me that the unit test failure is not related to my patch. So what should I do next?
>
> Shall I resubmit the patch, possibly after rebasing it to the current master? This is the first time I am doing this, so I have no experience. I also don't know if the patch will be reviewed, given that the build failed. Or will it be considered anyway?
>

Unit test failures are not really a problem, unless it is obvious that you introduced them.

However, I note that Miklos asked you to add a unit test. Doing that would probably ensure that your change is committed :-)



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