[vdsm] Jenkins and Gerrit.

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 02:55:17PM +0200, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:48:13PM +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 07:47:02AM -0400, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> > > I have setup patch review on Jenkins.info for newly submitted
> > > patches and it seems to be working pretty well over all but last
> > > night well tweaking the process I broken it for a few min but that
> > > was long enough that about 50 jobs were marked -1 I will be fixing
> > > that today by rerunning the jobs.  I am sorry if one of your patches
> > > was dinged and it should be fixed by this time tomorrow.
> >
> > Thanks, Robert, for working on this. It is highly important for me to
> > know that something is going to break the build before taking it in.
> >
> > However, would it be possible to have a repository where we can review
> > the code of the robot?
> It's Gerrit Trigger[1] and the code is on github[2].
> 
> > I think it is important for the robot to be less noisy, and
> > particularly, never give V+1. This task is reserved to humans that
> > actually know what the patch should be doing.
> The V+1 has been fixed. Will give 0 when they pass, -1 when they fail.
> 
> > Also, I am not at all sure that the robot is limitting itself to be
> > running code of trustworthy authors.
> Eyal added a feature request for this[3]. This was the result of a
> discussion on the infra mailing list[4].

As much as I like (and need) this per-commit verification, I think we
should not deploy it before the feature is implemented.

BTW, Federico suggested to initiate the test only on request (when oVirt
Jenkins CI Server is added as reviewer). This would allow a more silent
start for CI.

Thanks,
Dan.

> 
> [1]: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Gerrit+Trigger
> [2]: https://github.com/jenkinsci/gerrit-trigger-plugin
> [3]: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-14655
> [4]: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/infra/2012-August/000759.html