Re: Retention period for autopkgtest test logs
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 03:22:59PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Moreover, there are other use cases beyond test failure fixing. > Consider MREs and SRUs, where you prepare a package in a PPA, and run > autopkgtest as part of the criteria for having the package be accepted. For the record, I don't believe the SRU team has ever asked for pre-upload autopkgtests as a condition of an MRE. Given the frequency with which autopkgtest infrastructure gets overloaded, I generally take the view that ppa autopkgtest runs should be kept to a minimum because the results don't transfer to the main archive and all have to be run again, and it's the second run that actually matters for proposed-migration. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Retention period for autopkgtest test logs
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 1:18 PM Bryce Harrington < bryce.harring...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:23:36AM -0700, Brian Murray wrote: > > Currently test results and log files for autopkgtest runs are kept until > > the release for which the test was run reaches its End of Life. This is > > also true for autopkgtest runs for packages in PPAs and the Ubuntu QA > > team thinks we should not be keeping these for such a long period of > > time. > > > > We plan to automatically remove test results for PPAs which ran more > > than 8 weeks ago. Does 8 weeks seem like too short of a period to > > anybody? > > It does feel a bit short; prior results can sometimes be interesting for > comparison purposes, although even that value diminishes quickly over > time. Is there a strong reason to favor 8 weeks vs. say 26 weeks > (i.e. our development cycle length)? > > Bryce > I would also recommend a longer period, at least 12 or 16 weeks. The selfish reasoning is that this would give us at least 2 kernel SRU cycles worth of (hopefully) passing logs to use when triaging a failure. Francis -- Francis Ginther Canonical - Kernel -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Retention period for autopkgtest test logs
Could we add "Keeping the last run" That way you delete, but aren't just time constrained. Keeping the last test run can be useful to do a comparison, if needed. On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 12:24 PM Brian Murray wrote: > Currently test results and log files for autopkgtest runs are kept until > the release for which the test was run reaches its End of Life. This is > also true for autopkgtest runs for packages in PPAs and the Ubuntu QA > team thinks we should not be keeping these for such a long period of > time. > > We plan to automatically remove test results for PPAs which ran more > than 8 weeks ago. Does 8 weeks seem like too short of a period to > anybody? > > Thanks! > -- > Brian Murray > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > -- --- Dr. John Chittum Engineering Manager, Canonical, CPC team -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
