Re: Jenkins is acting again - scoring patch when test was not run

From: "Eyal Edri" <eedri(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "infra" <infra(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: Sunday, March 2, 2014 10:26:51 PM Subject: Re: Jenkins is acting again - scoring patch when test was not run ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "infra" <infra(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 9:59:39 PM > Subject: Jenkins is acting again - scoring patch when test was not run > > Hi infra, > > Jenkins gave my patch -1 because it Jenkins was broken: > http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/vdsm_master_pep8_gerrit/7364/console > > This is a major error; Jenkins should -1 a patch only if the it could run > the > relevant test, and the test failed. I've changed the default behaviour of gerrit trigger to only give -1 on 'unstable' builds, and not on 'failed' builds.

builds in general should not fail (red) on real errors (if they do, we should fix relevant job), they should turn unstable (yellow). and job won't turn unstable on an unexpected infra error (like happened now). > > In this case the relevant test is running the pep8 tool, and scoring the > patch > is correct if the tool returned with non-zero exit code. > > Any other failure is CI error and should not effect the patch score. > > If you can, it would be nice if jenkins would add a comment on gerrit, > telling > about errors. In this case, the status should be ERROR instead of FAILURE. i think it will happen now, please let us know if this happens again, we have the option to modify the default msg per failure.