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Barak Korren updated OVIRT-1077:
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Epic Link: OVIRT-400
Create a package gating flow with OST
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Key: OVIRT-1077
URL:
https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-1077
Project: oVirt - virtualization made easy
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Barak Korren
Assignee: infra
Priority: Highest
The OST flows today run on package repos that are composed wither from all available
updates (As in the case of the 'experimental' flows) or on manually curated repos
(As in the case of the 'older' OST flows or the manual flows).
The existing flows lack feedback. When OST fails it can be hard to know which of the
group of changes that happened before it ran was the one to cause to to fail. This places
a severe workload on the infra team to diagnose and report OST failures.
This ticket suggest the creation of a new flow where all changes to all OST input sources
are tracked, so that when OST fails it is possible to run a bisection algorithm and
automatically report to the developers about the change that caused the failure.
This approach can more cheaply provide most of the benefits of pre-merge gating while
side-stepping some of the technical complications.