Sorry this took a little longer than expected with the holiday in US. Here's the first proposal [1] on the automated test system. Comments welcome.
Specifically, I have one question on if we should have a staging branch for all release branches and master where all checkins go and the build system automatically cherry-pick over commits that passes the tests. I believe we have a lot of pieces in place. Prassana, Sudha, Rayees, Ram Ganesh, myself, and a few others will be working to get this system in place. --Alex [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Automated+Tests+Rules+and+Guidelines > -----Original Message----- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 8:44 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] If BVT breaks, revert the commits... > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > > After Dave's complain in the vmsync [MERGE] thread about BVT in horrible > shape on master, I went around to figure out what exactly happened. The > best I can figure is that after a certain merge (I will leave out which merge > as > that's not important), BVT no longer runs automatically. It was promised to > be fixed and there are people who are actively fixing it but it's been in this > way for about two weeks. People running BVTs are working around the > problem but it's not automated anymore and so it's no longer running on > master. I understand people are nice and tried to be accommodating to > other people by working around the problem but sometimes we just have to > be an arse. So let me be that arse... > > > > New Rule.... > > If BVT or automated regression tests break on master or any release > branch, we revert all commits that broke it. It doesn't matter if they > promise > to fix it within the next hour. If it's broken, the release manager will > revert > the commits and developers must resubmit. It sounds mean but it's the only > way this problem can be fixed. > > > > To avoid having a bunch of reverts and resubmits, the developers should > be able to request that BVT run on their branch and don't merge until BVT on > their branch is at 100%. We will work on figuring out how to do that. > > > > Comments? > > > > --Alex > > +100 - not only +100 but I will increment ASFBots $beverage counter a > few in your favor for suggesting this. > > --David
