>
> Jenkins as a huge collections of independent shell scripts
> that are waiting to be executed with appropriate parameters.


Right that made me wonder... but then you said:

OpenStack has a spec to get rid of Jenkins entirely and instead have
> Zuul create an Ansible play book to run on a machine.  But really that
> is another topic.


Makes sense that we should drop Jenkins if we're not leveraging it's
features.

Congrats again on contributing back to the OSS community!

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 19/11/2015 18:51, Brian Gerstle a écrit :
> > Nice work!
> >
> > Is this at all related to upstream/downstream Jenkins jobs?
>
> The Zuul system does not rely at all on Jenkins upstream/downstream. One
> can think of Jenkins as a huge collections of independent shell scripts
> that are waiting to be executed with appropriate parameters.
>
> OpenStack has a spec to get rid of Jenkins entirely and instead have
> Zuul create an Ansible play book to run on a machine.  But really that
> is another topic.
>
>
> To elaborate a bit more:
>
> Gerrit does support dependencies between changes, but only in the same
> repository and branch. You can see that in the Gerrit web interface, and
> Gerrit will refuse to merge a change for which the parent is not merged
> yet.
>
> Zuul does the same but independently from Gerrit. It is merely filling
> the gap of Gerrit lacks of cross repositories dependencies.
>
> When a change is voted +2, it is enqueued in 'gate-and-submit'.  Zuul
> immediately verify whether the dependencies are either merged or ahead
> in the queue, else it will reject the change and report back in Gerrit.
>
> So if you have change A and change B depending on A. You +2 A then B and
> the queue is:
>
>  A <-- B (depend on A)
>
> A is processed (no dependency)
> For B, Zuul find the dependency A ahead and thus it is processed.
>
> If A fails the tests, B tests are automatically cancelled and the change
> dequeued.  Zuul knows B depends on A.
>
> Assuming all changes are merged by Zuul (via CR+2), Zuul dependency
> comes on top of Gerrit and nicely enforce dependencies.
>
>
>
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