Nathan Hartman wrote on Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:06 -0400: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 10:35 AM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > > > > Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:22 +0000: > > > Since r1882293 effectively reverted this, I'm guessing there was some > > > transient error. However, ENOTIME to look into this, particularly as > > > I didn't get a copy of stderr. > > > > > > The relevant cron job is: > > > > > > # Puppet Name: Update our upcoming changes list > > > SVN=svn > > > 15 4 * * * chronic ~/src/svn/site/tools/generate-upcoming-changes-log.sh > > > > > > > The cron job is running on svn-qavm.apache.org as local user "svnsvn". > > For details, see the Puppet manifest in Infra's repo (I don't have the > > link, sorry). > > This happened again in r1882961: > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:28 AM <svn-r...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Author: svn-role > > Date: Thu Oct 29 04:28:02 2020 > > New Revision: 1882961 > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1882961&view=rev > > Log: > > * upcoming.part.html: Automatically regenerated > > > > Modified: > > subversion/site/publish/upcoming.part.html > > Which removed all the upcoming changes from that page. Like before, it > will probably (effectively) revert itself again the next time this job > runs. > > Without diving deeper yet, the last line in > site/tools/generate-upcoming-changes-log.sh > unconditionally commits the changes to upcoming.part.html. > > I think an error occurs in upcoming.py before any revisions are > printed and I am *guessing* it happens in > copyfrom_revision_of_previous_tag_of_this_stable_branch because the > <pre>..</pre> is empty and specifically the line > "Changes in ^/subversion/branches/1.14.x:" is not printed. >
Any chance that svn.a.o fails to be contacted? That happens often to the buildbots too. > Probably generate-upcoming-changes-log.sh should check for success of > upcoming.py before committing. > > Can't look into this further now but posting these notes here for my > own (and anyone else's) reference... > > Nathan
