Hi, after yet another 5 hour wait just to be greeted with yet another random failure with no build logs I'm getting really tired of the poor reliability of the Qt CI system.
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/157590/ has been greeted with genuine failures, failures in qtdeclarative, qtxmlpatterns, multiple random failures in qt3d despite being a simple change which I suspect are due to issues on one or more CI nodes. I appreciate the new CI is more efficient than the previous implementation but it still has a very high rate of failed integration attempts. For a piece of infrastructure that is critical to the Qt Project the CI system should have 24x7 sysadmin support. I'm not expecting devs to be doing this. The Qt Company has sys admins supported by license fees yet we see example after example of the support being substandard. Certificates expiring, disks filling up, upgrades being performed to coincide with feature freezes, upgrades performed then going home for the weekend leaving systems in an unfit state. Such long waits resulting in random failures is killing both productivity and motivation. This whole week seems to have been nothing other than an endless cycle of staging and re-staging. We're doing our best to get Qt 3D into shape for Qt 5.7 but this is being hamstrung by the infrastructure. I don't understand how sysadmins can be caught out by disks filling up without them being notified. Why is there no server monitoring in place? Likewise for the numerous SSL certificate expirations over the last couple of years. Now being in the same situation of seemingly endless failures over a holiday weekend, it seems my backlog will continue to get longer whilst my will power to dedicate my personal time to meeting the release deadline so that TQC sysadmins can go on their summer vacations wanes. I would be very grateful if anybody happens to read this and is available to look at the current CI issues. Please can TQC management dedicate resources to sorting out the underlying resource shortages for administering the CI, putting on place some reliable server monitoring that actually gets acted upon and giving the project the system it should have. Thank you and enjoy what is left of the holiday weekend. Sean -- Dr Sean Harmer | sean.har...@kdab.com | Managing Director UK Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company Tel. UK +44 (0)1625 809908, Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development