[openstack-dev] [infra] [qa] A place for gate job contacts?

Anita Kuno anteaya at anteaya.info
Fri May 29 17:51:35 UTC 2015


On 05/29/2015 10:15 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Excerpts from Anita Kuno's message of 2015-05-28 17:35:06 -0400:
>> On 05/28/2015 04:46 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>>> On 2015-05-28 13:30:44 -0700 (-0700), Clint Byrum wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Do we already have this hidden somewhere, or would it make sense to
>>>> maybe add this as something in openstack-infra/project-config along side
>>>> the jjb definition that creates the job/class of job somehow?
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> We don't (yet anyway). It's a little tricky since a "job" isn't
>>> necessarily a particular configuration element but rather often
>>> arises by instantiating a parameterized template. So the assembly of
>>> a particular template along with a specific set of parameters is
>>> what we might want to associate with a given contact. It's possible
>>> we could add a contact parameter to these so that it accompanies
>>> each job configuration as metadata and transform that into a
>>> responsible parties list somewhere easy to reference... but I expect
>>> there are plenty of alternative options for this. Also we should get
>>> input from the QA team as well (tag added) since they'd be one of
>>> the more frequent consumers of this information.
>>>
>> I tend to default to the ptl of the repo on which the main job is
>> running (for example if the job runs on cinder, devstack-gate and
>> tempest, and contains the word cinder, I would ask the cinder ptl for
>> further direction on the job).
>>
>> This works mostly and for me is preferable to a secondary file which
>> would be hard to keep updated.
> 
> The jobs Clint is thinking of map more closely to the third-party CI
> jobs, where someone with specialty expertise on a messaging driver may
> need to get involved in debugging a functional test failure. IIRC,
> there's a wiki page for third-party CI owners, so maybe we should do
> something similar for these jobs.
> 
> Doug
> 
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Jim has created this patch, Clint will this serve your purpose?

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/186852/

Thanks,
Anita.



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