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On 07/11/2013 11:28 AM, John Griffith wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Dan Smith <dms at danplanet.com
> <mailto:dms at danplanet.com>> wrote:
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>     > In the corner to my left, our current largest gate reset culprit
>     > appears to be neutron bug #1194026 - weighing in with 62 rechecks
>     > since June 24th (http://status.openstack.org/rechecks/)
> 
>     So, with some of the highest rates of patch traffic we've seen over the
>     last couple of weeks before the H2 deadline, I think this is really
>     becoming a problem. I think merge times are through the roof as a
>     result.
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>     Since the neutron gate is not a full tempest run, I think we should
>     consider making a temporary change. I know that turning it into a
>     non-voting job is not a popular solution, and I hate to even suggest
>     it. However, it's just a subset of the tests anyway and I think the
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> Well to be blunt, if there's not even anybody assigned to the defect and
> it's significantly impacting
> the progress of every other project.  I don't know that it's such a bad
> idea.  The process worked, it
> identified an issue, now it's known/understood however it's causing
> significant turmoil everywhere else.
> Are we gaining anything by having it continue to fail and do rechecks
> for the next week?

+1 to making it non-voting until this is resolved.  This is a sensitive
week for gate and check times.

>     impact is currently overshadowing the potential for regression
>     detection, given the relatively small amount of coverage. Is this
>     something people would consider?
> 
>     Of course, the other option is to try to skip the offending test if
>     we're running with neutron support, which may help. Since we don't know
>     what the problem is and it *seems* to be an issue with resources not
>     becoming available before a timeout (AIUI), I worry that this will just
>     move the problem elsewhere.

Disabling a specific test would be preferred IMO, but if that's not
sufficient, I'd +1 downgrading the whole thing to non-voting for now.

-- 
Russell Bryant