[Gluster-Maintainers] Update: Gerrit review system has one more command now

[Vijay Bellur]

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 2:29 AM, Amar Tumballi <atumball at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As a push towards more flexibility to our developers, and options to run
> more tests without too much effort, we are moving towards more and more
> options to trigger tests from Gerrit during reviews.
>
> One such example was 'regression-on-demand-multiplex' tests, where any
> one can ask for a brick-mux regression for a particular patch.
>
> In the same way, in certain cases where developers are making changes, and
> more than 1 tests would be impacted, there was no easy way to run all the
> regression, other than sending one patchset with changes to 'run-tests.sh'
> to not fail on failures. This was tedious, and also is not known to many
> new developers. Hence a new command is added to gerrit, where one can
> trigger all the runs (if something is failing), by entering *'run full
> regression'* in a single line at the top of your review comments.
>
> With this, a separate job will be triggered which will run the full
> regression suite with the patch. So, no more requirement to make
> 'run-tests.sh' changes.
>
> More on this at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/1564119
>
>
>

Thank you, Amar! I think it will be quite useful for us.

I am not sure if there's a document that details all possible options &
tricks with gerrit. If there's none, we could add one to our
repository/developer-guide so that new developers find it easy to use these
options.

Regards,
Vijay
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