<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Robert Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertc@robertcollins.net" target="_blank">robertc@robertcollins.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This has been mentioned in other threads, but I thought I'd call it<br>
out and make it an explicit topic.<br>
<br>
We have over 100 recheck bugs open on<br>
<a href="http://status.openstack.org/rechecks/" target="_blank">http://status.openstack.org/rechecks/</a> - there is quite a bit of<br>
variation in how frequently they are seen :(. In a way thats good, but<br>
stuff that have been open for months and not seen are likely noise (in<br>
/rechecks). The rest - the ones we see happening are noise in the<br>
gate.<br>
<br>
The lower we can drive the spurious failure rate, the less repetitive<br>
analysing a failure will be, and the more obvious new ones will be -<br>
it forms a virtuous circle.<br>
<br>
However, many of these bugs - a random check of the first 5 listed<br>
found /none/ that had been triaged - are no prioritised for fixing.<br>
<br>
So my proposal is that we make it part of the base hygiene for a<br>
project that any recheck bugs being seen (either by elastic-recheck or<br>
manual inspection) be considered critical and prioritised above<br>
feature work.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree with the notion here (that fixing transient failures is critically high priority work for the community) -- but marking the bug as "critical" priority is just a subjective abuse of the priority field. A non-critical bug is not necessarily non-critical work. The "critical" status should be reserved for issues that are actually non-shippable, catastrophically breaking issues.</div>
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Thoughts?<br>
<br>
-Rob<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Robert Collins <<a href="mailto:rbtcollins@hp.com">rbtcollins@hp.com</a>><br>
Distinguished Technologist<br>
HP Converged Cloud<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><br></div>-Dolph
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