[dev][infra][qa][tact-sig] Zuul behavior change with Depends-On across queues

Radosław Piliszek radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 08:12:08 UTC 2022


Hi fungi,

a question - is it possible to configure Zuul so that this "clean
check" requirement is per-project rather than per-tenant?

-yoctozepto

On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 21:46, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
>
> For those who haven't seen the more detailed announcement[*] about
> it, just a quick note that if you get a sudden -2 back from Zuul
> when approving a change with a Depends-On to a change in a different
> project which hasn't merged yet, that's likely an indication those
> projects don't share a dependent queue. It's not a bug, but an
> intentional clarification of Zuul's enqueuing behavior.
>
> For most other Zuul deployments (and even our other Zuul tenants in
> OpenDev) this is purely cosmetic, but since OpenStack's Zuul tenant
> is configured to require a positive Verified vote before enqueuing
> into the gate pipeline, it means some changes may end up
> unexpectedly needing another pass through check first. It's worth
> re-evaluating whether or not this "clean check" rule remains a
> useful requirement for gating. It was added some years ago because a
> number of gate breaking bugs were traced back to unstable changes
> being rechecked enough times that eventually they got lucky and were
> able to merge, and then their instability contributed to
> destabilizing the integrated gate as a whole. Similarly, changes
> were being approved without reviewers confirming their jobs were
> passing first, and this led to additional resource waste.
>
> There is a bit of discussion around "blind rechecks" at the PTG this
> week, and so this topic is related; it might be a good idea to
> consider it in conjunction with the greater recheck conversation.
>
> [*] http://lists.opendev.org/pipermail/service-announce/2022-April/000033.html
> --
> Jeremy Stanley



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