[openstack-dev] [Neutron] Towards better stability of gate jobs

Kevin Benton kevin at benton.pub
Mon Jan 30 22:45:42 UTC 2017


+1. Also, if you cant see why a particular job failed, ask in the
openstack-neutron IRC channel to get more eyes on it.

On Jan 30, 2017 9:39 AM, "Jakub Libosvar" <jlibosva at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> we've been struggling with functional and fullstack jobs for a while
> now and we'd like to bring a better stability to it as the failure rate
> is still quite high. This is getting annoying, specifically for voting
> functional job, which makes it sometimes harder to get some of our
> beautiful precious patches merged.
>
> The very basic pillar on the way to improve the jobs is to understand
> what is wrong with them. Without having an overview of current failures
> it's very hard to make any improvement.
>
> Hence I'd like to ask you for help. When you see a failed job, don't
> just 'recheck' with the best hope that your patch won't get hit by gate
> failure again. Take a minute, please, open the failure and eventually
> report a new bug.
>
> Armando already sent similar email in the past [1], where he
> encouraged to have a look at the failure and report a bug. I have also
> sent a new policy to our docs with recommended steps [2]. Ideas on
> improvement are very welcome!
>
> It's really crucial to get a better grasp of our job failures and I
> believe if we can make this a habit into our day to day work, it will
> really make a difference at the job stability.
>
> Thank you.
> Jakub
>
> [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-Augu
> st/100801.html
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/426829/
>
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