The importance of fixing failed build-artifacts jobs

[Dafna Ron]

Hi All,

We have been seeing a large amount of changes that are not deployed into
tested lately because of failed build-artifacts jobs so we decided that
perhaps we need to explain the importance of fixing a failed
build-artifacts job.

If a change failed a build-artifacts job, no matter what platform/arch it
failed in, the change will not be deployed to tested.

Here is an example of a change that will not be added to tested:

[image: Inline image 1]

As you can see, only one of the build-artifacts jobs failed but since the
project specify that it requires all of these arches/platforms, the change
will not be added to tested until all of the jobs are fixed.

So what can we do?

1. Add the code which builds-artifacts to 'check-patch' so you'll get a -1
if a build failed (assuming you will not merge with -1 from CI).
2. post merge - look for emails on failed artifacts on your change (you
will have to fix the job and then re-trigger the change)
3. you can see all current broken failed artifacts jobs in jenkins under
'unstable critical' view [1] and you will know if your project is being
deployed.
4. Remove the broken OS from your project ( either from Jenkins or from
your automation dir if you're using V2 ) - ask us for help! this should be
an easy patch
5.Don't add new OS builds until you're absolutly sure they work ( you can
add check-patch to keep testing it, but don't add build-artifacts until its
stable ).

Please contact myself or anyone else from the CI team for assistance or
questions and we would be happy to help.

[1] http://jenkins.ovirt.org/

Thank you,

Dafna
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