[ovirt-devel] The importance of fixing failed build-artifacts jobs

[Yaniv Kaul]

I think there's a rush to add FC27 and S390 (unrelated?) to the build. If
either fail, right now, I don't think we should be too concerned with them.
In the very near future we should be, though.
Y.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Dafna Ron <dron at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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