I am happy with "okay to test" / "run tests" .


On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 10:13 Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kamil - "Ready for review" is not good - it must have been reviewed
> already because it has at least one approval.
>
> Ash - I am ok with "okay to test" :). Hard to mistake it with
> anything else and serves the purpose well :)
>
> Any other opinions/voices :)? I already have the PRs to enable it in
> review, and we work with Tobiasz on auto-labeling action so hopefully
> today/tomorrow we can get it up and running.
>
> J
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:08 AM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> How about "okay to test" -- that's often the "command" that people use
>> for test approval (thinking of Jenkins Github integration, where you can
>> say "ready to test" to do this exact purpose).
>>
>> -ash
>>
>> On Oct 26 2020, at 10:06 am, Kamil Breguła <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> what do you think about "Ready for review"?
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 11:04 Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:53 AM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Is "ready to merge" also going to automatically merge if tests are green?
>>
>>
>> Not at all. It was never the intention. Committers still need to merge it
>> manually. The difference is that you will see the "Ready to Marge" label
>> and "green" (hopefully) merge button, you will know that the "full set" of
>> tests was successful.
>>
>> I am also not sure if "Ready to Merge" is best name though. I've been
>> thinking about this but  think it could be simply "All test", "Full test
>> set" ...  or simply maybe "Ready for all tests"*.*
>>
>> I think the last one is best ("Ready for all tests")
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>>
>> I think it shouldn't unless we also remove that label on a new push to
>> the branch - consider this:
>>
>>    - PR is reviewed and approved and a simple change, committer reviews
>>    it and gives it an approval; tests currently running
>>
>>
>>    - Label is applied
>>    - While tests are running PR author pushes malicious code
>>    - Tests for this new push pass and it's automatically merged.
>>
>>
>> Because of this I think "ready to merge" is actually the wrong name as it
>> conveys extra meaning that we want to avoid. (And I also don't want to
>> remove approvals when pushing, there are many many cases where it's just a
>> small change requested, and we give approval with "make this change; I'm
>> pre-emptively approving it")
>>
>> -ash
>>
>> On Oct 24 2020, at 8:49 pm, Daniel Imberman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think ready to merge makes more sense
>>
>> via Newton Mail
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>>
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 12:13 PM, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Some short update - seems like we can get 50% 60% saving in job usage by
>> the "unapproved PRs". We are progressing with implementation :D.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 10:55 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> FYI. We found out with Tobiasz, that it will be a bit better and if we
>> add "*Approved*" label in the PR that the workflow will automatically
>> set when the issue gets approved.
>>
>> This way we have state of the PR approval (we know when it changes) and
>> know that we should re-run last "small matrix" successful run when the
>> label changes to "Approved".
>>
>> This will also be an additional indication to committers in case of
>> queues and delays we se. It might be that the "small" matrix run is already
>> successful, the PR gets approved but the "full matrix build" is delayed due
>> to queuing. Such PR will have green "merge" button and might get merged by
>> mistake - but it will not have the "Approved" label yet. Setting the label
>> and re-running the build will happen at the same time.
>>
>> But I start thinking this label should be named differently - how about 
>> "*Ready
>> to merge*" maybe? Or maybe other ideas?
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 1:10 AM Daniel Imberman <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> +1000!
>>
>> via Newton Mail
>> <https://cloudmagic.com/k/d/mailapp?ct=dx&cv=10.0.51&pv=10.15.6&source=email_footer_2>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 8:22 AM, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Tobiasz :). fantastic.
>>
>> I prepared a very short and simple design doc
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/16rwyCfyDpKWN-DrLYbhjU0B1D58T1RFYan5ltmw4DQg/edit#
>>  where
>> we can collaborate.
>>
>> I also added you as collaborator to
>> https://github.com/potiuk/get-workflow-origin that we already use, and I
>> think you can update the "get workflow origin" plugin to include status of
>> the PR in the output of the action (ore maybe we find out that we already
>> have what we need in GitHub context).
>>
>> I will take a look at finding out how/if we can trigger the "full build"
>> automatically when approval status changes from "Not approved" to
>> "Approved".
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:20 PM Tobiasz Kędzierski <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jarek.
>>
>> sounds good to me. I am happy to help you as much as I can with it.
>>
>> BR
>> Tobiasz
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:06 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> *TLDR; I thought about it a bit and I have a proposal on how to solve it
>> even better - one that can be implemented over the weekend (I volunteer :)
>> ) and that can be very easily shared and adopted by the other ASF projects
>> so that we all collectively decrease the strain on Github Actions.*
>>
>> This is in parallel to our efforts on having self-hosted workers of
>> course, but I think it will be needed anyway. Let me put it in a bit of
>> context
>>
>> *Problem statement:*
>>
>> * the root cause of the problem is that we are competing with many other
>> projects of ASF for the 180 jobs. I have started the discussion in
>> [email protected] about this:
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1708881f52adbdae722afb8fea16b23325b739b254b60890e72375e1%40%3Cbuilds.apache.org%3E
>>  and
>> it's clear all ASF projects using GA have the same problem and compete
>> against each other for the jobs.
>> * if we decrease the strain on our side, this is not solving the problem
>> long term. We keep on doing it already, and we already decrease a lot of
>> strain, but other projects from ASF increase their strain in the meantime
>> (Apache Beam, Skywalking, and few other projects are becoming heavy GitHub
>> Actions users).
>> * in all the projects that I looked at, we have the same root cause.
>> Matrix strategy of builds causes enormous strain on Github Actions if the
>> whole matrix is run for all PRs. We are going to make it works sustainably
>> only if we come up with an easy solution, that can be applied to all those
>> projects.
>> * I think the comment-based PR triggering process is complex and
>> cumbersome to follow. It puts a LOT more effort on the committers because
>> they not only have to review and comment on the PRs but also make decisions
>> that those PRs are ready for "full build". This is a lot of unnecessary
>> effort and complicated process that many of the ASF projects will not like
>> to adopt
>>
>> *Proposed Solution:*
>>
>> *Add an easy way to limit the matrix strategy to one "default" combo for
>> PRs THAT HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED BY COMMITTERS YET*
>>
>> This can be easily done with Github Actions workflows - no need to write
>> a bot for this.
>>
>> *Some details:*
>>
>> * Custom GitHub Action (generic) that checks if the PRs are approved by
>> Committers (and no "disapprovals"). The action would produce an output ->
>> "Approved", "Not approved". The output could be used to determine the
>> matrix strategy scope (in our case we already have support for dynamic
>> matrix strategy that I added a few weeks ago - so it's just a matter of
>> wiring the output in).
>> * Very small workflow with the same GithubAction run on
>> "pull_request_target" event. That workflow would effective "observe" the
>> PR, and when the status changes from "not approved" to "approved", it
>> triggers a PR build (with the "full matrix strategy" this time because the
>> PR will be already approved). This seems to be entirely possible. This
>> "pull_request_target" workflow - similarly to "workflow_run" runs with a
>> "write" access token and uses a "main branch" workflow version and it could
>> easily trigger a rerun of the last PR build in such case.
>>
>> *Benefits:*
>>
>> - I think I could write such an action over the coming weekend (happy to
>> collaborate with anyone on that). I will first search if someone has done
>> something similar of course because maybe it can be done faster this way,
>> but I am quite confident after writing my
>> https://github.com/potiuk/cancel-workflow-runs which we already use to
>> limit the strain that it is doable in a day/two
>> - no need to change the process we have - we continue working as we did
>> and simply "approved" PRs will be the full matrix strategy ones but the
>> "not-approved-ones" will run a limited version of the checks.
>> - no way to accidentally submit a breaking PR - when the committer
>> approves the PR that has not been approved before, the PR build will be
>> re-run with the "full matrix strategy" and not mergeable until it finishes
>> - last-but-not-least: we can propose (and help) other ASF projects to use
>> the action in their own GitHub Actions. It will not be changing anyone's
>> process - which makes it super-easy to adopt and I can even turn it into a
>> "recommended solution" by Apache Infra - similarly as Airflow's CI
>> architecture is a recommended solution already for the integration of GA
>> with DockerHub
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Github+Actions+to+DockerHub
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 7:59 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think it's a good idea, but I'd augment it a bit. A better option will
>> be to run all test types but
>> for only one chosen combination of "Python + DB type + DB version".
>>
>> I often don't even look at the PR until the tests pass and this would be
>> much better this way.
>> And often people have slower/small machines so they submit the PR to see
>> if they have not
>> broken any other tests. This is much, much easier than doing it locally -
>> because then in one
>> "fire&forget" you can run static, doc, unit tests, integration, and
>> Kubernetes ones,. And it's a valid
>> thing.
>>
>> Also, we have to make sure that such PR does not become "Green" before
>> all the tests are run.
>> This might be rather problematic as Github does not yet have a " manual"
>> Approval step in
>> Github Actions (it's coming in Q4:
>> https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/99).
>>
>> We have many tests and already we hit a bug a few times, where not all
>> tests have yet started
>> and we've merged such PR. I can imagine it will happen more and more
>> often if all PRs will
>> only run a subset of tests. It will be very easy to make that mistake
>> because even if we run a subset of
>> those tests, we have so many jobs that you cannot see them all in the
>> GitHub UI.
>>
>> So we will have to have a check that fails the PR but marks it somehow as
>> "Ready for review" for example adding
>> a label "Ready for review" when the subset of tests succeeds.
>>
>> Also, this might not be needed (or less important) if we implement:
>> https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/10507 "Selective Tests"
>> for which I have an open PR. They will give much bigger improvements -
>> because, in the vast majority of cases, the tests will take
>> very little time - giving feedback
>> about relevant tests in a few minutes rather than half-an-hour. We can
>> also combine those two.
>>
>> It seems that I managed to finish some of the stuff that I thought will
>> take more time, so I might come back to it next week
>> if it goes as well as I planned.
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 3:57 AM Daniel Imberman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I’m not too worried about that. I think people would learn pretty
>> quickly. It hasn’t been an issue for the kubernetes community so I can’t
>> imagine it being an issue for us. End-of-day, we only have a limited amount
>> of compute power and this will increase the speed we merge the PR’s that
>> have passed basic code quality checks.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 2:19 PM, Tomasz Urbaszek <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think I can agree. Especially with flaky tests, some contributors may
>> be confused that some of the tests don't work on CI but work locally...
>>
>> Checking the code quality is good first step. Once there's a review we
>> can start tests on CI.
>>
>> On the other hand, I can see people asking for starting the tests or
>> being even more confused why some PRs have more CI builds than others...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tomek
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:29 PM Daniel Imberman <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> With the recent uptick in airflow contribution and pull requests, I have
>> a proposal that I hope will ensure that we do not find ourselves in a CI
>> backlog hell. I noticed that on the Kubernetes project, pull requests do
>> not run integration test until a committer submits a "ready to test"
>> command to the CI bot. This step can prevent draft PRs or un-reviewed PRs
>> from taking github CI resources. It is worth noting that with breeze's
>> docker based testing system, users have the exact same testing capabilities
>> locally as they would on our CI.
>>
>> I propose that we allow unverified PR's to run basic and static tests,
>> but not perform the full test suite or integration test without first being
>> reviewed.
>>
>> What does everyone think?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jarek Potiuk
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>> Jarek Potiuk
>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jarek Potiuk
>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>
>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jarek Potiuk
>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>
>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jarek Potiuk
>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>
>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jarek Potiuk
>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>
>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>
>>
>
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>
> Jarek Potiuk
> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>
> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>
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