<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please see <a href="http://drupal.org/node/371309">http://drupal.org/node/371309</a> "Failed to install HEAD" message makes the bot seem like a failure<div><br></div><div>The bot failure message doesn't explain _why_ it failed. We need to change the error message to help people out. This same message confused the hell out of me until someone told me it meant the _Drupal installer_ was broke after the patch was applied.<br><div><br></div><div> - John</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Nathaniel Catchpole wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I'm pretty sure the test framework install runs a custom script which depends on the HEAD installer forms. So changes will cause testing failures, and committing the patch will require the script to be updated to avoid test bot meltdown. I'd probably try to force your patch to Code Needs Review to get some manual testing - and see if you can co-ordinate with Jimmy/boombatower and webchick in irc on how best to deal with it.<br> <br>Nat<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Dave Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drupal@dave-cohen.com">drupal@dave-cohen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm trying to submit a patch which changes a form in install.php. Because of that change the test bot always fails with "Failed to install HEAD". At least I'm guessing that's why, the error message really gives no explanation.<br> <br> Is there something I can include in the patch to make the test bot succeed?<br> <br> The patch is here: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/394282" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/394282</a><br> <br> Thanks,<br> <font color="#888888"><br> -Dave<br> </font></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>