Re: Proposal: gate stable release critical path updates on openQA test results

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On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 20:58 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 09:25:44AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Hey folks!
> > 
> > So here's an idea I was thinking about over the RH shutdown: I propose
> > we gate stable release critical path updates on the openQA tests.
> 
> +1
> 
> > The result of this would be that critpath updates could not go stable
> > if any of the openQA tests failed, unless a waiver was issued. I think
> > this should be viable and not cause any major issues.
> 
> Just to confirm: the packager who issues the update is allowed to
> create the waiver?

At least that, yeah. I think it's the same permission as editing an
update - if you can edit the update, you can issue a waiver for it.
That's a whole *other* can of worms I'm going to get into later ;)

> When I initially read the proposal, I was immediately worried about
> false positives. But the fp rate seems low, so it looks alright to
> start gating.

Right, we basically aim to resolve *all* false failures one way or
another, rapidly, and I think we've got a fairly good record there.
> 
> There's the related issue that the critpath list is outdated:
> https://pagure.io/releng/issue/8948.
> It's not really required to have it up-to-date, but if we don't we'll
> be gating on some packages we shouldn't gate on, and not gating on
> some we should.

Yup. It's not as bad as I thought, though - best as I can tell there's
actually only one unapplied change, plus the PR I have open. Of course,
it really should be re-generated regularly to take changes in
dependencies into account.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha
https://www.happyassassin.net


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