On 2021-02-07 14:58:14 +0100 (+0100), Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
[...]
> Although currently there is an unfortunately tendency between
> newcomers to blindly recheck their patches despite clearly not
> passing some checks. If they could recheck only some jobs, it
> would limit their negative impact on the whole CI (and maybe make
> them realize that it's always the same jobs that fail).
[...]

Put differently, there is a strong tendency for newcomers and
long-timers alike to just beep blindly rechecking their buggy
changed until they merge and introduce new nondeterministic
behaviors into the software. If they only needed to recheck the
specific jobs which failed on those bugs they're introducing one
build at a time, it would become far easier for them to accomplish
their apparent (judging from this habit) goal of making the software
essentially unusable and untestable.

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Jeremy Stanley