Hi Kolla o/ I'm writing to you because I'm concerned.
In case you didn't already know, the RDO community collaborates with upstream deployment and installation projects to test it's packaging. This relationship is beneficial in a lot of ways for both parties, in summary: - RDO has improved test coverage (because it's otherwise hard to test different ways of installing, configuring and deploying OpenStack by ourselves) - The RDO community works with upstream projects (deployment or core projects) to fix issues that we find - In return, the collaborating deployment project can feel more confident that the RDO packages it consumes have already been tested using it's platform and should work To make a long story short, we do this with a project called WeIRDO [1] which essentially runs gate jobs outside of the gate. I tried to get Kolla in our testing pipeline during the Mitaka cycle. I really did. I contributed the necessary features I needed in Kolla in order to make this work, like the configurable Yum repositories for example. However, in the end, I had to put off the initiative because the gate jobs were very flappy and unreliable. We cannot afford to have a job that is *expected* to flap in our testing pipeline, it leads to a lot of wasted time, effort and resources. I think there's been a lot of improvements since my last attempt but to get a sample of data, I looked at ~30 recently merged reviews. Of 260 total build/deploy jobs, 55 (or over 20%) failed -- and I didn't account for rechecks, just the last known status of the check jobs. I put up the results of those jobs here [2]. In the case that interests me most, CentOS binary jobs, it's 5 failures out of 50 jobs, so 10%. Not as bad but still a concern for me. Other deployment projects like Puppet-OpenStack, OpenStack Ansible, Packstack and TripleO have quite a bit of *voting* integration testing jobs. Why are Kolla's jobs non-voting and so unreliable ? Thanks, [1]: https://github.com/rdo-infra/weirdo [2]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NYyMIDaUnlOD2wWuioAEOhjeVmZe7Q8_zdFfuLjquG4/edit#gid=0 David Moreau Simard Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter] __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
