Re: [gentoo-dev] A feedback about the CI bug reporting system

[Agostino Sarubbo]

On venerdì 6 novembre 2020 08:21:39 CET Agostino Sarubbo wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> 6 months have been passed after the CI system started to file bug reports.
> ~ 4700 bugs have been submitted
>
> We _know_ that atm is not possible to set a specific summary, instead a
> generic summary is used in case of compile failures and test failures.
> There are also some documented limitations.
>
> If there aren't much commits, usually you get the bug after 30 minutes after
> the commit and this looks to be nice.
>
> Since there are conflicting opinions I would like to know if you find it
> useful or not.
>
> More info about the project here:
> https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/
>
> Please keep me CC'ed
>
> Thank you
> Agostino


Thanks all for the feedback.

What looks strange is that ci/tinderbox opened ~4700 bugs, sure, there are 
invalid/duplicate bugs but the majority are fixed so in my opinion they were 
useful, but looking at the mailing list feedback looks to be a completely 
crap.

I want to play the game of destructive people but in a constructive way.

Thanks to @gyakovlev for the idea I have opened a new github project where we 
can collect the requests and the bugs:

https://github.com/asarubbo/ci/issues


An important note:

I consider this 'project' as something related to QA ( if you have a different 
opinion feel free to say ), so since I received rant from developers for 
something requested by other developers, I will touch the code ONLY when there 
is the QA lead approval.


When you want a new feature or you want to modify something that already 
exists, please open a thread (gentoo-dev is fine, and thanks to bman for the 
tracking idea) and open a github issue only when there is a written track of 
the QA lead approval mentioned above.


There is a README into the repository that explains all class of bugs 
discovered by the CI system.

Thank you
Agostino