ESC meeting minutes: 2022-10-13

[Noel Grandin]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 at 16:45, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at collabora.com> wrote:

>      + regular Windows / macOS problems
>      + brainstorm: how could we run this differently?
>        + e.g. clone a VM every single time for each build
>        + if happens only 1 time out of 100 times, keep a copy for
> investigation
>      + don't dislike the idea (Cloph)
>        + most Windows machines are already virtualized
>        + multiple VMs is more complex than just a few VMs for Windows
>        + less concerned about Macs
>        + cygwin is also another source of problems for Windows
>          + dialog leakage when these pop-up on the screen
>          + a fresh VM would solve this, but a setup time would increase
>        + next year plan: replace Windows Server with Windows 11, because
> server will be EOL
>        + could use virtualization features more
>
>
Personally, I think it would be a lot simpler (on Windows) to use something
like
    https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/lode/+/129675/
which uses the native Windows Job APIs, so it should provide fairly robust
termination,
and also possibly allow us to grab stack traces for the offending unit
tests.
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