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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ci@dpdk.org, Michael Santana <msantana@redhat.com>,
	Lincoln Lavoie <lylavoie@iol.unh.edu>,
	dpdklab <dpdklab@iol.unh.edu>,
	david.marchand@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-ci] [RFC] Proposal for allowing rerun of tests
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:47:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21294945.pYO5sEOfX6@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7teefefg4v.fsf@dhcp-25.97.bos.redhat.com>

13/04/2021 15:50, Aaron Conole:
> During the various CI pipelines, sometimes a test setup or lab will
> have an internal failure unrelated to the specific patch.  Perhaps
> 'master' branch (or the associated -next branch) is broken and we cannot
> get a successful run anyway.  Perhaps a network outage occurs during
> infrastructure setup.  Perhaps some other transient error clobbers the
> setup.  In all of these cases the report to the mailing flags the patch
> as 'FAIL'.
> 
> It would be very helpful if maintainers had the ability to tell various
> CI infrastructures to restart / rerun patch tests.  For now, this has to
> be done by the individual managers of those labs.  Some labs, it isn't
> possible.  Others, it's possible but is a very time-consuming process to
> restart a test case.  In all cases, a maintainer needs to spend time
> communicating with a lab manager.  This could be made a bit nicer.

I agree

> One proposal we (Michael and I) have toyed with for our lab is having
> the infrastructure monitor patchwork comments for a restart flag, and
> kick off based on that information.  Patchwork tracks all of the
> comments for each patch / series so we could look at the series that
> are still in a state for 'merging' (new, assigned, etc) and check the
> patch .comments API for new comments.  Getting the data from PW should
> be pretty simple - but I think that knowing whether to kick off the
> test might be more difficult.  We have concerns about which messages we
> should accept (for example, can anyone ask for a series to be rerun, and
> we'll need to track which rerun messages we've accepted).  The
> convention needs to be something we all can work with (ie: /Re-check:
> [checkname] or something as a single line in the email).
> 
> This is just a start to identify and explain the concern.  Maybe there
> are other issues we've not considered, or maybe folks think this is a
> terrible idea not worth spending any time developing.  I think there's
> enough use for it that I am raising it here, and we can discuss it.

First question: WHO should be allowed to ask for a re-run?
	- everybody
	- patchwork delegate
	- a list of maintainers

Second question: HOW requesting a re-run?
	- comment in email with formatted message
	- patchwork button
	- postal letter

Third question: WHERE hosting this mechanism?
	- only one answer: in dpdk-ci.git consumed by labs



  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-13 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-13 13:50 [dpdk-dev] " Aaron Conole
2021-04-13 14:47 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-04-13 14:59   ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-ci] " David Marchand
2021-04-13 15:04     ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-13 15:17       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-21 15:02         ` Aaron Conole
2021-04-27  8:56           ` David Marchand
2022-01-21 14:00 ` Kevin Traynor
2022-01-21 17:57   ` [dpdklab] " Lincoln Lavoie
2022-01-25 13:05     ` Kevin Traynor

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