[Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Random voting in Gerrit - Check votes before merging

[Atin Mukherjee]

On 06/09/2016 06:23 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> On 06/09/2016 05:11 AM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 06/09/2016 02:38 PM, Kaushal M wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> A heads up to all maintainers and developers.
>>>>
>>>> As all of you probably already know, reviews in Gerrit are getting
>>>> random votes for jobs that ran for other patchsets.
>>>>
>>>> We've had people noticing these votes only when they've been negative.
>>>> But these votes can be positive as well (I've got an example in the
>>>> forwarded mail below).
>>>>
>>>> Maintainers need to be make sure that any positive vote given to a
>>>> review is correct and for a job that ran for the particular review,
>>>> before merging it.
>>>>
>>>> To make sure that changes that have been given such a bogus vote don't
>>>> get merged, any developer finding such a vote, can give a Verified-1
>>>> to the review to block it from merging. I've changed the Verified flag
>>>> so that a Verified-1 blocks a review from being merged. I'll remove
>>>> this change after we figure out what's happening.
>>>>
>>>> I'll be posting updates to the infra-list to the mail-thread I've
>>>> forwarded below.
>>>
>>> This (and the random build failures) should be fixed now.
>>>
>>> There should no longer be any random votes/comments. Anyone who's had
>>> incorrect votes, please re-trigger the jobs.
>>
>> That's a great news Kaushal. Many thanks for taking it to the root cause
>> and fixing it.
>>
> 
> +1. Appreciate your help here, Kaushal!

It seems like we still haven't solved the problem completely. I don't
see regressions getting triggered on a verified +1. Here is the
reference http://review.gluster.org/#/c/14665/3

> 
> Thanks,
> Vijay
>