Re: osstest "short fast" tests of xen-unstable proposal

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>]

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On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 18:17 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:

> > Invent a new `xen-unstable-smoke' flight (in osstest terminology, a
> > `branch').
> >
> > This would be a push gate for xen.git.  Its input would be
> > xen.git#staging.  Its output would be a new branch, xen.git#smoked.
> > The existing `xen-unstable' flights would take xen.git#smoked as
> > input.  So there would be a two-stage push gate,
> >
> >  staging -[xen-unstable-smoke test]-> smoked -[xen-unstable test]-> master
> >
> > This would apply to xen-unstable only, not to stable braches, nor to
> > any other codebase (eg, qemu or Linux).  It would aim to run every 2h.
> >
> > Arrangements would be made to reuse the outputs of most recent builds
> > of qemuu and the currently favoured Linux branch.[5]
> >
> > If any test failed, the flight would be automatically aborted and
> > report immediately [6].  Unlike most flights, tests would not be
> > `sticky' to failing hosts, nor (when succeding) prefer hosts which
> > they hadn't run on for a while [6], so they would take the first
> > available machine.
> 
> This sounds good to me.
> 
+1

This would all be really, really useful!

Dario
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