Re: QEMU Summit Minutes 2023

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 11:46, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:53:00AM -0500, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > To give a picture of the state of the CI, I'd say it fails 80% of the
> > time. Usually 2 or 3 of the tests fail randomly from a group of <10
> > tests that commonly fail randomly.
> >
> > In order for the CI to be usable to submaintainers I think it should
> > _pass_ at least 90% of the time.
> >
> > There is still some way to go but I think this goal is achievable in
> > the next 2 or 3 months because the set of problematic tests is not
> > that large.
>
> FWIW, also bear in mind that when a pipeline fails, it is advisible to
> *NOT* re-run the pipeline, as that increases your odds of hitting another
> non-deterministic bug. Instead re-run only the individual job(s) that
> failed.

Yes, that's the approach I take. It's way to risky to re-run the
pipeline because it will probably fail again somewhere else :-).

Stefan