[openstack-dev] [third-party] - rebasing patches for CI

Kevin Benton blak111 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 20:37:07 UTC 2014


Are these zuul refs publicly accessible so that the third party CI systems
could reference then to guarantee they are testing the same thing?


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/03/2014 02:10 PM, Kevin Benton wrote:
>
>> The reason I thought it changed was that this is the first cycle where I
>> have encountered scenarios where my unit tests for the patch run fine
>> locally, but then they fail when they are checked by Jenkins (caused by
>> a change after the parent of my patch). I suppose I was just lucky
>> before and never had anything merge after I proposed a patch that caused
>> a conflict with mine.
>>
>> I suspect this is a problem then for many third-party CI systems because
>> the simple approach of setting [PROJECT]_REPO and [PROJECT]_BRANCH in
>> devstack to point to the gerrit server will not work correctly since it
>> will just test the patch without merging it.
>>
>> Where is this merging process handled in the OpenStack CI? Is that done
>> in Zuul with the custom Zuul branch is passed to devstack?
>>
>
> Yes. The zuul-merger daemon is responsible for managing this, and the
> devstack-gate project handles the checkout and setup of the git repos for
> all of the OpenStack projects.
>
> Best,
> -jay
>
>  --
>> Kevin Benton
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org
>> <mailto:fungi at yuggoth.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 2014-07-01 10:05:45 -0700 (-0700), Kevin Benton wrote:
>>     [...]
>>      > As I understand it, this behavior for the main OpenStack CI check
>>      > queue changed to the latter some time over the past few months.
>>     [...]
>>
>>     I'm not sure what you think changed, but we've (upstream OpenStack
>>     CI) been testing proposed patches merged to their target branches
>>     for years...
>>     --
>>     Jeremy Stanley
>>
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