On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 15:39 -0500, Sean Dague wrote: > <snip> > ========================== > Executive Summary > ========================== > To summarize, the effects of these changes will be: > > - 1) Decrease the impact of failures resetting the entire gate queue > by doing the heavy testing in the check queue where changes are not > dependent on each other. > > - 2) Run a slimmer set of jobs in the gate queue to maintain sanity, > but not block as much on existing bugs in OpenStack. > > - 3) As a result, this should increase our confidence that changes > put into the gate will pass. This will help prevent gate resets, > and the disruption they cause by needing to invalidate and restart > the whole gate queue.
All good things, Sean ++. Might I also suggest one other thing that, IMO, would reduce gate contention? What if we added an option to git review that would inject something into the git commit message that would indicate the patch author felt the patch does not need to have integration testing run against it. Lots of patches make no substantive code changes and just clean up style, comments, or documentation. Having integration tests run for these patches is just noise and provides no value. There should be a way to indicate to Zuul not to run integration testing if some marker is in the commit message. For example, let us imagine that issuing: git review --skip-integration-tests would cause a git commit hook to execute that injected this marker into the commit message: Skip-Integration-Tests in the same way that the Change-Id commit hook injects the Change-Id: Ixxxxx line into the commit message. A -core reviewer would see Skip-Integration-Tests in the commit message. If the -core reviewer disagreed with the patch author that the patch did not have substantive code changes and actually wanted integration tests to be run for the patch, they could simply ask the patch author to run a git commit --amend and remove the Skip-Integration-Tests line from the commit message. If a -core reviewer did a +1A on a patch that had a Skip-Integration-Test marker in the commit message, Zuul would simply not execute the integration tests and would only execute things like rebase/merge conflict checks, and if all those basic tests succeeded, merge the patch into the target branch. This should significantly reduce the gate contention IMO, and should not be difficult at all to implement. Best, -jay _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev