On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:56:47 +0800 Qiguo Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently, various testing labs perform CI testing on new patch series sent > to dev at dpdk.org and report their results to > https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/. On each series on the patch > list, the results appear in the test category contexts for IOL (community > lab), GitHub, and LoongSon. > > If a reported failure on a series seems suspicious to the patch submitter > or maintainer, then there may be an interest in requesting a retest on the > series for the failing label(s) in order to verify the failure is not > spurious or a false positive. This retest demonstrates to the submitter or > maintainer that the failure can be reliably reproduced. Unfortunately, at > present, the best way to accomplish this is to reach out to lab maintainers > via email or Slack. This is not ideal for developers in need of quick test > results. > > Going forward, CI testing labs will be implementing the option to request > retest for their respective test labels on patchwork via emails sent to the > dev mailing list. This feature is ready today for labels reported by the > UNH-IOL Community Lab, and will soon also be an option for the Github Robot > at least. > > In order to request a retest on your patch series, send an email reply to > one of your series’s patch or cover letter emails with email content of the > format used below: > > Recheck-request: <test names>
