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@Kobzol Kobzol commented Jun 11, 2024

It has been noted several times on Zulip that the current message on regressions is perhaps too aggressive, and does not help contributors enough. It also does not mention the possibility that the found regression is just a false alarm, which does sadly happen quite often.

This PR is an attempt to improve upon that. Let the bike-shedding commence!

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hello @workingjubilee please remember to get to this tomorrow ok?

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damn I can't notify myself.

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lqd commented Oct 3, 2024

I've also discussed this topic with contributors at rustconf, and some piece of feedback I received was that the noise in the system and false positives that can happen, may also warrant a reword of the very-confident "This is a highly reliable metric" message. This has caused people to investigate regressions that weren't there, but didn't know about these annoying occurrences.

This PR already mentions the noise so we may just need to soften the metrics descriptions and fix this at the same time.

@Kobzol Kobzol force-pushed the regression-pr-comment-change-text branch from 21490de to 13a4495 Compare October 4, 2024 07:21
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Kobzol commented Oct 4, 2024

Tried to reword in 13a4495.

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lgtm!

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Yes, this looks much better. And it can always be tweaked further while trying to walk the line between "eye-catching enough to direct attention" and "not directing that attention incorrectly".

@Kobzol Kobzol merged commit de7ce9e into rust-lang:master Oct 7, 2024
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@Kobzol Kobzol deleted the regression-pr-comment-change-text branch October 7, 2024 19:28
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