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 kevin.mitch...@rackspace.com 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

[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. Is