[Gluster-devel] [Feature request]: Regression to take more patches in single instance

Anand Avati anand.avati at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 12:44:28 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle at redhat.com>wrote:

> On 07/31/2013 07:51 AM, Anand Avati wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle at redhat.com
>> <mailto:kkeithle at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 07/31/2013 07:35 AM, Amar Tumballi wrote:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>
>>         I was trying to fire some regression builds on very minor
>>         patches today,
>>         and noticed (always known, but faced pain of 'waiting' today)
>>         that we
>>         can fire regression build on only one patch (or a patchset if its
>>         submitted with dependency added while submitting). And each
>>         regression
>>         run takes approx 30mins.
>>
>>         With this model, we can at max take only ~45 patches in a day,
>> which
>>         won't scale up if we want to grow with more people participating
>>         in code
>>         contribution. Would be great to have an option to submit
>>         regression run
>>         with multiple patch numbers, (technically they should be
>>         applicable one
>>         top of other in any order if not dependent), and it should work
>>         fine.
>>         That way, we can handle more review load in future.
>>
>>
>>     When a regression fails how do you know who to blame?
>>
>>     I'd rather see more build machines (multiple VMs on a big
>>     build.gluster.org <http://build.gluster.org> replacement box?)
>>
>>     instead to get more concurrency.
>>
>>
>> We already face that ambiguity when a patch has a dependent patch.
>>
>
> That's a bit of a special case. The dependent patch is often owned by the
> same person, right? I would not want to make this harder for people in the
> general case.
>
>
>  Multiple VMs will solve the problem, but I guess we need to figure out
>> how to get a bigger box etc.
>>
>>
> Can the "slave" build machines be behind a firewall? I'm working on
> getting the old Sunnyvale lab machines on-line in our new lab. Can we use
> some of those?


That should work, I think!

Thanks,
Avati
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