macos and windows tests are able to rot
Currently, our OSX build test are broken (#1394 (closed)). This has occurred because of a combination of the following factors:
- These build tests only run on
main
, so fixing them is not treated as a priority because no-one's work is blocked (except for the release technician's) - Probably, these build tests are not hermetic. I think this because the errors in #1394 (closed) don't look like the kind of thing that would happen due to us updating arti.git. IMO changes made outside arti.git should not cause our own tests to fail.
- Perhaps, those of us who have enough macos expertise to fix this don't have enough bandwidth.
As a result, we are not meeting the goals set out in our Support Policy. @ahf/@nickm, is there a label that reflects the seriousness?
(I've made !2226 (merged) which turns the build failure from a release blocker into merely a serious bug.)
(1) and (2) are what this ticket is about. If after that, we find that we can't keep macos builds working, (3) would be a matter for management.