Re: [Openstack] Jenkins and transient failures

2012-07-02 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 08:40:36AM -0700, James E. Blair wrote: [snip] > So with all that background, I think we should discuss the following at > the CI team meeting on Tuesday: [snip] > 3) Decide on a course of action to mitigate failures from transient > gerrit errors (but continue to work on

Re: [Openstack] Jenkins and transient failures

2012-07-01 Thread James E. Blair
"Kevin L. Mitchell" writes: > One of the things that's really bugging me these days is transient > failures, such as the inability to download a package, causing a gate > job to fail. It seems to me that we can distinguish "test failure" from > "environment build failure" easily enough, and auto

[Openstack] Jenkins and transient failures

2012-06-29 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
One of the things that's really bugging me these days is transient failures, such as the inability to download a package, causing a gate job to fail. It seems to me that we can distinguish "test failure" from "environment build failure" easily enough, and automatically retry in the latter case. I