[openstack-dev] Help us reduce gate resets by being specific about bugs being found

Zane Bitter zbitter at redhat.com
Fri Sep 27 10:22:08 UTC 2013


On 26/09/13 16:49, Sean Dague wrote:
> As many folks know, gerrit takes comments of either the form
>
> recheck bug #XXXXX
> or
> recheck no bug
>
> To kick off the check queue jobs again to handle flakey tests.
>
> The problem is that we're getting a lot more "no bug" than bugs at this
> point. If a failure happens in the OpenStack gate, it's usually an
> actual OpenStack race somewhere. Figuring out what the top races are is
> *really* important to actually fixing those races, as it gives us focus
> on what the top issues are in OpenStack that we need to fix. That makes
> the gate good for everyone, and means less time babysitting your patches
> through merge.
>
> Now that Matt, Joe, and Clark have built the elastic-recheck bot, you
> will often be given a hint in your review about the most probably race
> that it was found. Please confirm the bug looks right before rechecking
> with it, but it should help expedite finding the right issue.
> http://status.openstack.org/rechecks/ is also helpful in seeing what's
> most recently been causing issues.

Can I suggest including this link in Jenkins's comments on Gerrit? As 
things stand it is two clicks away and the link is buried in the middle 
of some very dense text. I know that for me personally this renders 
"recheck no bug" more tempting than it should be ;)

cheers,
Zane.




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