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On 2018-03-08 02:44, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Before PTG, we were discussing about Job Template and irrelevant files
> issues on multiple mailing thread [1].
> 
> Both things does not work as expected and it leads to run the jobs on
> irrelevant files also and on excluded branch.
> 
> In Dublin PTG, during infra help hours on Tuesday, we had talk on this
> topic and to find the best approach.
> 
> First of all thanks to Jim for explaining the workflow of zuulv3 about
> selecting and integrating the matched jobs. How jobs are being matched
> and how variables like branch and irrelevant-files are being taken
> care between job definition and job template and project's pipeline
> list.
> 
> Current issue (explained in ML [1]) is with the integrated-gate job
> template [2] where integrated job like tempest-full are being run.
> Other job template like 'system-required', 'openstack-python-jobs'
> etc.
> 
> After discussion, It is found more complicated to solve these issues
> as of now and it might take time for Jim/infra team to come up with
> better way to handle job template and irrelevant_files/branch var etc.
> 
> We talked about few possibilities like one way is to supersede the job
> template defined var by project's pipeline list. For example if
> irrelevant_files are defined by both job template and project's
> pipelines then ignore/skip the job template values of that var or all
> var. But this is just idea and not sure how feasible and best it can
> be.
> 
> But till the best approach/solution is ready, we need to have some
> workaround as current issue cause running many jobs on unnecessary
> patches and consume lot of infra resources.
> 
> We discussed few of the workaround mentioned below and we can go for
> one based on majority of people or infra team like/suggest-
> 1. Do not use integrated-gate template and let each project have the
> jobs in their pipeline list
> 2. Define all the irrelevant files for each projects in job template ?
> 3. Leave as it is.
> 
> ..1 http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-February/127349.html
>      http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-February/127347.html
> 
> ..2 https://github.com/openstack-infra/openstack-zuul-jobs/blob/49cd964470c081005f671d6829a14dace2c9ccc2/zuul.d/zuul-legacy-project-templates.yaml#L82

I'm fine with option 2 for those projects that want to do some changes
for now.

Breaking up the integrated-gate will cause more maintenance problems.

Andreas
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