[Gluster-devel] good job on fixing heavy hitters in spurious regressions

[Krishnan Parthasarathi]

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> hi,
>         I think we fixed quite a few heavy hitters in the past week and
> reasonable number of regression runs are passing which is a good sign.
> Most of the new heavy hitters in regression failures seem to be code
> problems in quota/afr/ec, not sure about tier.t (Need to get more info
> about arbiter.t, read-subvol.t etc). Do you guys have any ideas in
> keeping the regression failures under control?

The deluge of regression failures is a direct consequence of last minute
merges during (extended) feature freeze. We did well to contain this. Great stuff!
If we want to avoid this we should not accept (large) feature merges just before feature freeze.

> 
> Here are some of the things that I can think of:
> 0) Maintainers should also maintain tests that are in their component.

It is not possible for me as glusterd co-maintainer to 'maintain' tests that are added
under tests/bugs/glusterd. Most of them don't test core glusterd functionality.
They are almost always tied to a particular feature whose implementation had bugs
in its glusterd code. I would expect the test authors (esp. the more recent ones) to chip in.
Thoughts/Suggestions?