[openstack-dev] [all] 3rd Party CI vs. Gerrit

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Jun 27 12:35:53 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 07:40:51AM -0400, Sean Dague wrote:
> It's clear that lots of projects want 3rd Party CI information on
> patches. But it's also clear that 6 months into this experiment with a
> lot of 3rd Party CI systems, the Gerrit UI is really not great for this.

That's an understatement about the UI :-)

> It seems what we actually want is a dashboard of these results. We want
> them available when we go to Gerrit, but we don't want them in Gerrit
> itself.
>
> What if 3rd Party CI didn't vote in Gerrit? What if it instead published
> to some 3rd party test reporting site (a thing that doesn't yet exist).
> Gerrit has the facility so that we could inject the dashboard content
> for this in Gerrit in a little table somewhere, but the data would
> fundamentally live outside of Gerrit. It would also mean that all the
> aggregate reporting of 3rd Party CI that's being done in custom gerrit
> scripts, could be integrated directly into such a thing.

Agreed, it would be a great improvement in usability if we stopped all
CI systems, including our default Jenkins, from ever commenting on
reviews. At most gating CIs should +1/-1.  Having a table of results
displayed, pulling the data from an external result tracking system
would be a great idea.

Even better if this external system had a nice button you can press
to trigger re-check, so we can stop using comments for that too.

To me the ideal world is where the only things adding comments to
reviews are human and their comments are actually about the code
in the patch :-)

Regards,
Daniel
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