[Gluster-devel] NetBSD tests not running to completion.

[Avra Sengupta]

On 01/07/2016 07:24 PM, Jeff Darcy wrote:
>>> I'd prefer a "defined level of effort" approach which *might* reduce the
>>> benefit we derive from NetBSD testing but *definitely* keeps the cost
>>> under control.
>> Did we identify the worst offenders within the spurious failing tests?
>> We could ignore their output on NetBSD (this is how I started)
> There do seem to be patterns - ironically, NFS-related tests seem to show up a lot - but I haven't studied this enough to give a detailed answer.  More to the point, is there really much difference between running tests all the time and ignoring certain ones, vs. running them nightly/weekly and triaging the results manually?  Besides resource consumption, I mean.  If we find something in a nightly/weekly test that closer inspection leads us to believe is a generic and serious problem, we should be able to create a Linux reproducer or even block merges by fiat.  Then the only difference is whether we default to allowing merges to occur despite NetBSD failures or default to blocking them.  Either way we can make exceptions.
Agree with your point. If we are ready to make exceptions, then we might 
as well not block all the patches. As Jeff suggested, triaging the 
nightly/weekly results manually and making any serious issues a blocker 
should suffice. We have been following the current model for so long, 
and have been constantly facing issues because of it. I feel there is no 
harm in trying the nightly/weekly approach for once (even temporarily if 
we have to), and see how things work out.
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