Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run

[johnbillion]

The Travis jobs within a build run in the order in which they're specified in .travis.yml. This means that the WordPress tests run on the oldest version of PHP first (5.2) and the newest version last (7.1). As a general rule, this means the slowest test jobs run first because each subsequent version of PHP is faster than the previous.

This order should be reversed so that when a committer is patiently waiting for a Travis build to complete, they are at least more likely to see unexpected failures earlier than they otherwise would.

The disadvantage is that 5.2-specific failures would take longer to appear, but these are relatively infrequent.

[aaroncampbell]

Just weighing here that I think this is a good idea, and I think the change should be backported as well. At least across the versions we're still doing security updates for.

[netweb]

Agreed, makes sense, I did this for bbPress a while ago in ​bbpress:changeset:6005

First up though I think we should get stranger-node-things.diff from #35105 in, this should fix all the Travis CI branch builds from erroring then we can reorder the PHP versions in the build matrix.

[johnbillion]

#39486 should go in too in one form or another.

[johnbillion]

39705.patch​ is my proposed order. The patch will conflict with @netweb's patch on #35105 though.

[netweb]

Replying to johnbillion:

39705.patch​ is my proposed order.

We want to keep the current top/first job in the same position, it's the JavaScript only job that typically finishes in under 2 minutes, this also keeps within the original ticket proposal of the fastest job first.

That job for reference is this job:

  - php: 7 
    env: WP_TRAVISCI=travis:js 

Replying to johnbillion:

The patch will conflict with @netweb's patch on #35105 though.

That it will, and we should also in this ticket backport as much of this as possible to branches back to 3.7, as such rather than having to refresh the patch in #35105 it'd be nice to get that committed first and then update the patch here

[netweb]

Refreshed patch per my comment above, keeps the JavaScript only test the first Travis CI job of each build, also bumps the PHP version used in that job to the latest stable PHP version, PHP 7.1

Note: Will still conflict with #35105 patch ;)

[netweb]

Patch 39705.2.diff​ is a refresh of 39705.1.diff​ to apply cleanly against /trunk

[johnbillion]

In 40434:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run.

As a general rule, this means the fastest test jobs now run first because each subsequent version of PHP is faster than the previous. When a committer is patiently waiting for a Travis build to complete, they are at least more likely to see unexpected failures earlier than they otherwise would.

In addition, this updates the JavaScript test job to run on PHP 7.1.

Props netweb

See #39705

[johnbillion]

In 40435:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run.

As a general rule, this means the fastest test jobs now run first because each subsequent version of PHP is faster than the previous. When a committer is patiently waiting for a Travis build to complete, they are at least more likely to see unexpected failures earlier than they otherwise would.

In addition, this updates the JavaScript test job to run on PHP 7.1.

Props netweb

See #39705

Merges [40434] to the 4.7 branch.

[johnbillion]

In 40436:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run on the 4.6 branch.

See #39705

[johnbillion]

In 40437:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run on the 4.5 branch.

See #39705

[johnbillion]

In 40438:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run on the 4.4 branch.

See #39705

[johnbillion]

In 40439:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run on the 4.3 branch.

See #39705

[johnbillion]

In 40440:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run on the 4.2 branch.

See #39705

[johnbillion]

In 40441:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run on the 4.1 branch.

See #39705

[johnbillion]

In 40442:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run on the 4.0 branch.

See #39705

[johnbillion]

In 40443:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run on the 3.9 branch.

See #39705

[johnbillion]

In 40444:

Build/Test tools: Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run on the 3.8 branch.

See #39705