[openstack-dev] [tripleo] reducing our upstream CI footprint

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Wed Oct 31 18:15:32 UTC 2018


Alex Schultz <aschultz at redhat.com> writes:

> Hey everyone,
>
> Based on previous emails around this[0][1], I have proposed a possible
> reducing in our usage by switching the scenario001--011 jobs to
> non-voting and removing them from the gate[2]. This will reduce the
> likelihood of causing gate resets and hopefully allow us to land
> corrective patches sooner.  In terms of risks, there is a risk that we
> might introduce breaking changes in the scenarios because they are
> officially non-voting, and we will still be gating promotions on these
> scenarios.  This means that if they are broken, they will need the
> same attention and care to fix them so we should be vigilant when the
> jobs are failing.
>
> The hope is that we can switch these scenarios out with voting
> standalone versions in the next few weeks, but until that I think we
> should proceed by removing them from the gate.  I know this is less
> than ideal but as most failures with these jobs in the gate are either
> timeouts or unrelated to the changes (or gate queue), they are more of
> hindrance than a help at this point.
>
> Thanks,
> -Alex
>
> [0] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-October/136141.html
> [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-October/135396.html
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:reduce-tripleo-usage+(status:open+OR+status:merged)
>
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This makes a lot of sense as a temporary measure. Thanks for continuing
to drive these changes!

Doug




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