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I think the current test architecture needs a re-examination.
I've identified a couple of issues:
Verbose Logs
Logs are verbose.
$ curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis-ci.org/jobs/85403103/log.txt | wc -l 15385Ouch. Take a step back: that's literally unreadable.
Tests are slow
Take a look at the travis-ci build history
Every build runs for about 5hrs and runs in a single command. Compare that to the ruby on rails setup. Builds are separated based on what's being tested and things are allowed to fail (namely some tests with new versions of ruby)
I suggest fixing these by making these changes:
I'm going to start on this stuff on a fork, but I'd like community input too so do shout at me.