Andres de la Peña created CASSANDRA-16882:
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Summary: Save CircleCI resources with optional test jobs
Key: CASSANDRA-16882
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16882
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Task
Components: CI
Reporter: Andres de la Peña
Assignee: Andres de la Peña
This ticket implements the addition of approval steps in the CircleCI workflows
as it was proposed in [this
email|https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r57bab800d037c087af01b3779fd266d83b538cdd29c120f74a5dbe63%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E]
sent to the dev list:
The current CircleCI configuration automatically runs the unit tests, JVM
dtests and cqhshlib tests. This is done by default for every commit or, with
some configuration, for every push.
Along the lifecycle of a ticket it is quite frequent to have multiple commits
and pushes, all running these test jobs. I'd say that frequently it is not
necessary to run the tests for some of those intermediate commits and pushes.
For example, one can show proofs of concept, or have multiple rounds of review
before actually running the tests. Running the tests for every change can
produce an unnecessary expense of CircleCI resources.
I think we could make running those tests optional, as well as clearly
specifying in the documentation what are the tests runs that are mandatory
before actually committing. We could do this in different ways:
# Make the entire CircleCI workflow optional, so the build job requires
manual approval. Once the build is approved the mandatory test jobs would
be run without any further approval, exactly as it's currently done.
# Make all the test jobs optional, so every test job requires manual approval,
and the documentation specifies which tests are mandatory in the final steps of
a ticket.
# Make all the mandatory test jobs depend on a single optional job, so we have
a single button to optionally run all the mandatory tests.
I think any of these changes, or a combination of them, would significantly
reduce the usage of resources without making things less tested. The only
downside I can think of is that we would need some additional clicks on the
CircleCI GUI.
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