[openstack-dev] [Nova] What's holding nova development back?
Joe Gordon
joe.gordon0 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 20:34:26 UTC 2014
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Matt Riedemann <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On 9/16/2014 1:01 PM, Joe Gordon wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2014 8:31 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 09/15/2014 08:07 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 2014-09-15 17:59:10 -0400 (-0400), Jay Pipes wrote:
>> >> [...]
>> >>>
>> >>> Sometimes it's pretty hard to determine whether something in the
>> >>> E-R check page is due to something in the infra scripts, some
>> >>> transient issue in the upstream CI platform (or part of it), or
>> >>> actually a bug in one or more of the OpenStack projects.
>> >>
>> >> [...]
>> >>
>> >> Sounds like an NP-complete problem, but if you manage to solve it
>> >> let me know and I'll turn it into the first line of triage for Infra
>> >> bugs. ;)
>> >
>> >
>> > LOL, thanks for making me take the last hour reading Wikipedia pages
>> about computational complexity theory! :P
>> >
>> > No, in all seriousness, I wasn't actually asking anyone to boil the
>> ocean, mathematically. I think doing a couple things just making the
>> categorization more obvious (a UI thing, really) and doing some
>> (hopefully simple?) inspection of some control group of patches that we
>> know do not introduce any code changes themselves and comparing to
>> another group of patches that we know *do* introduce code changes to
>> Nova, and then seeing if there are a set of E-R issues that consistently
>> appear in *both* groups. That set of E-R issues has a higher likelihood
>> of not being due to Nova, right?
>>
>> We use launchpad's affected projects listings on the elastic recheck
>> page to say what may be causing the bug. Tagging projects to bugs is a
>> manual process, but one that works pretty well.
>>
>> UI: The elastic recheck UI definitely could use some improvements. I am
>> very poor at writing UIs, so patches welcome!
>>
>> >
>> > OK, so perhaps it's not the most scientific or well-thought out plan,
>> but hey, it's a spark for thought... ;)
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > -jay
>> >
>> >
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> I'm not great with UIs either but would a dropdown of the affected
> projects be helpful and then people can filter on their "favorite" project
> and then the page is sorted by top offenders as we have today?
>
> There are times when the top bugs are infra issues (pip timeouts for
> exapmle) so you have to scroll a ways before finding something for your
> project (nova isn't the only one).
I think that would be helpful.
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> --
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> Thanks,
>
> Matt Riedemann
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