[Engine-devel] Proposal for new commit msg design for engine commits

[Antoni Segura Puimedon]

I like the idea of having a label in the bottom part of the commit that is:

METADATA: network

which would be your second proposal.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eyal Edri" <eedri at redhat.com>
> To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Cc: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:38:51 AM
> Subject: [Engine-devel] Proposal for new commit msg design for engine commits
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You all probably know and familiar with 'ovirt-engine' git hook for commit
> msg template [1].
> this helps understand the general area of the patch in the project but it
> lacks additional info that might
> be valuable for scaling automatic tests in Jenkins CI.
> 
> Let me explain:
> 
> Infra team is working hard on expanding oVirt CI infrastructure and adding
> more tests in jenkins (per commit/patch).
> Adding important meta-data per patch can significatly improve the ability to
> run specific tests for each patch/commit,
> and not waste valuable resources on Jenkins jobs that are not relevant to the
> code in the patch.
> 
> So the idea is to add/expand current metadata per patch, in the form of:
> (either)
>  1. expanding current header template to include more data like 'network' ,
>  'setup', 'tools', 'virt'
>  2. adding a new label with relevant tags for the patch, called e.g
>  'METADATA: network, rest, virt'
> 
> Jenkins jobs will then be able to parse that data and trigger only relevant
> jobs for it.
> this can also allow us to add more jobs per patch, an option that is very
> problematic today considering the amount of
> patches coming in to engine.
> 
> Once agreed on a format, we'll be able to add a git hook to verify the
> validity of the commit msg. (similar to bug-url).
> 
> if we're not 100% sure that the tags will cover all corner cases and we feel
> like we need to run the code on all jobs,
> we can a nightly job to run all the remaining jobs (but at least it won't run
> on every patch/commit).
> 
> [1] <core | restapi | tools | history | engine | userportal | webadmin>:
> 
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> Eyal Edri.
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