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Ekaterina Dimitrova commented on CASSANDRA-16882:
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Should we consider that no one has a strong opinion here and move on with
whatever we consider a good fit here? Or maybe make a last ping in Slack before
final decision in case someone missed the mail amongst all the latest
discussions?
> Save CircleCI resources with optional test jobs
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> 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
> Priority: Normal
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> 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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