[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Workaround for trac N 5348

[Martin Kosek]

On 10/08/2015 02:06 PM, Martin Basti wrote:
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> On 10/08/2015 11:18 AM, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 11:12:37AM +0200, Oleg Fayans wrote:
>>>> When the ticket is addressed and these workarounds are no longer
>>>> needed -- what is our process for finding these workarounds and
>>>> reverting them, so that the tests test the real, expected behaviour?
>>> As per discussion with Martin Basti, it was decided that this workaround
>>> will only be applied to the current 4-2 branch, not to the upstream. In
>> That sounds like a reasonable plan for this issue.
>>
>>> upstream the issue itself will (supposedly) be solved
>> Except currently it's not, so (IIUIC) you will keep having
>> nondeterministic failures in master.
>>
>> I was mostly interested in the general approach that we have to
>> workarounds -- how do we track them, how do we make sure they don't
>> stick in tests forever, even after the issue was already properly
>> addressed.
>>
> I'm not sure if there is a formal process how to work with workarounds.
> 
> Usually, we open ticket, push workaround there, and leave ticket opened until
> the issue is fixed.
> If there is no time to do proper fix and workaround works well we close ticket
> and open new ticket in further milestones.
> 
> I do not remember if we have a similar issue with test workaround in past.

Can we anyhow utilize "wait_for_dns" knob we added for making DNS tests reliable?