[QA] Signal vs noise

[Željko Filipin]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> (...) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94150>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Jforrester (Code Review) <
> gerrit at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> (...)
>> > Reverting this change would show that all Internet Explorer and Safari
>> jobs are broken because of T114362.
>>
>> OK, so… why is that task not, for instance, a high-priority
>> tell-all-engineers task? Why is it that the first I hear that the CI
>> infrastructure is totally broken for the most important targets a comment
>> in this commit? We already trivially test everything in Chrome/Firefox as
>> part of normal development; the main value of browser tests are IE, Safari
>> and particularly iOS Safari…
>>
>
Well, the problem is that nobody cared. Or noticed. Or cared enough to let
us know. When we have noticed the problem, we did not prioritize it as
urgent or high impact since it looked to us that nobody cares.

Željko
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