allowing debug ssh access to jenkins slaves for developers

[Michal Skrivanek]

On 10 Mar 2014, at 10:15, Eyal Edri wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Recently I've been approached by several developers who are working on enabling
> vdsm functional tests on jenkins.ovirt.org, and they need access to the slaves running those tests,
> otherwise its almost impossible to debug and fix those tests (errors doesn't reproduce on their test env).
> 
> What i propose is giving "power user" access to jenkins slaves, similar to what we do on jenkins master,
> maybe at 1st w/o sudo access, and later on adding specific commands to sudo if it's needed.
> 
> procedure should be documented in ovirt.org and request should be sent to infra at ovirt.org, 
> explaining the need to access the slaves + public key of the requester.
> 
> I think it's important to allow this access if we want our infra to scale, having more
> people that can fix and solve problems on their specific jobs/projects.
> 
> thoughts/suggestions?

I think it will be great when more people can get issues resolved and get the tests stable. IMHO this is really a high priority to have a solid foundation (100% working basic tests) before we add higher level integration tests and flows

Thanks,
michal

> 
> Eyal.
>