Ordering of latest bugs on the Malone frontpage appears to have become volatile

[Graham Binns]

The fix for bug 517798 appears to have made the ordering of the frontpage recent bugs list volatile, making tests fail in the buildbot (see bug 519266).

We should investigate:

 a) Why the ordering has become volatile
 b) Whether it actually matters (i.e., this may be due to sampledata issues).

[Graham Binns (gmb)]

This is due to the fact that the failing test uses the factory to create bugs. Since they're all created in the same transaction they have the same datecreated value.

[Deryck Hodge (deryck)]

This is why I originally had used both datecreated and id sort, to make this predictable. In hindsight, I think Abel's suggestion is best -- just sort on id desc. It's predictable and naturally reverse date ordered.

We should fix this and then fix the test, since it's a fairly useless test now without bug numbers. I can do this later today if no one else has time.

Cheers,
deryck

[Graham Binns (gmb)]

On 10 February 2010 11:57, Deryck Hodge <email address hidden> wrote:
> This is why I originally had used both datecreated and id sort, to make
> this predictable.  In hindsight, I think Abel's suggestion is best --
> just sort on id desc.  It's predictable and naturally reverse date
> ordered.
>
> We should fix this and then fix the test, since it's a fairly useless
> test now without bug numbers.  I can do this later today if no one else
> has time.

Thanks, that would be great. I was going to do that yesterday after it
was suggested in the Bugs team standup but didn't get round to it.