[Freeipa-devel] Travis CI broke after merging PR 177

[Fraser Tweedale]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 09:41:40AM +0100, Martin Babinsky wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/177 was recently merged despite
> causing nearly half of the tests in our Travis CI gating to fail. This broke
> Travis CI for all other PR that were rebased after this merge, causing false
> negative errors everywhere.
> 
> Fraser reverted the offending commits in
> https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/329 which restored Travis to
> original state (never mind PEP8 errors they were in the original code
> already).
> 
> Regarding this issues I have two questions:
> 
> a)
> 
> should I merge https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/329 and thus revert
> the breakage in order to unblock other contributors? Given the current
> traffic I think it is sufficient to wait for us to investigate and produce a
> fix. If not, please scream loudly.
> 
Definitely not, I am using this PR as a playground to poke the CI in
various ways.  Also, proper fix would be best :)  See also my other
mail (I would have replied here but fetchmail was not fetching mail
and I missed it until just now >_<).

> b)
> 
> what can we improve to make the results of CI more visible to contributors?
> I think that I should sit down with Martin 2 and investigate the possibility
> to send notifications about negative CI results (sufficient IMO) to the
> mailing list.
> 
Or the commit author.

It would be *great* if the test job, in event of failure, would
collect all the obvious logs and dump them somewhere as artifacts.

> In the meanwhile I would like to ask all reviewers to carefully check the
> output of failed Travis CI runs. If the job fails, you will see the results
> at the very end of the log. There are two sections: PEP8 errors and test
> output. You can expand both of them to see what went wrong and report it to
> the PR author if necessary.
> 
> The reviewer and author can then use the very same tool used in CI [1] to
> reproduce the failures locally. Using  '--no-cleanup' option during the run
> [2] leaves behind a running container which you can attach to and
> investigate further.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/freeipa/ipa-docker-test-runner
> [2] https://github.com/freeipa/ipa-docker-test-runner/blob/master/README.md
> 
> If you have any additional questions/suggestions about Travis feel free to
> contact me.
> 
> -- 
> Martin^3 Babinsky
> 
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