[openstack-dev] Unwedging the gate

Joe Gordon joe.gordon0 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 19:53:15 UTC 2013


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net>wrote:

> On 25 November 2013 19:25, Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Robert Collins <
> robertc at robertcollins.net>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a proposal - I think we should mark all recheck bugs critical,
> >> and the respective project PTLs should actively shop around amongst
> >> their contributors to get them fixed before other work: we should
> >> drive the known set of nondeterministic issues down to 0 and keep it
> >> there.
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes! In fact we are already working towards that. See
> >
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/020048.html
>
> Indeed I saw that thread - I think I'm proposing something slightly
> different, or perhaps 'gate blocking' needs clearing up. Which is -
> that once we have sufficient evidence to believe there is a
> nondeterministic bug in trunk, whether or not the gate is obviously
> suffering, we should consider it critical immediately. I don't think
> we need 24h action on such bugs at that stage - gate blocking zomg
> issues obviously do though!
>

I see what your saying. That sounds like a good idea, all gate bugs are
critical, but only zomg gate is bad gets 24h action.


>
> The goal here would be to drive the steady state of 'recheck needed'
> so low that most people never encounter it. And break the social
> pattern that has been building up.
>

Yes, agreed.


>
> -Rob
>
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> Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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> HP Converged Cloud
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