[vdsm] Jenkins and Gerrit.

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:58:17AM -0400, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> On 08/08/2012 09:50 AM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> >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.
> I already wrote a little bash code to do this outside the plug-in.
> It will be in place by the end of the day.

This kind of script is exactly the thing I'd like to be peer-reviewed
before applied en mass to gerrit changes. Particularly due to the
security implications.

Regards,
Dan.