From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [RFC] support/misc/gitlab-ci.yml.in: retry a job only if it failed due to a runner issue
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:28:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875y4d27pm.fsf@48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230826210011.39269-1-romain.naour@gmail.com> (Romain Naour's message of "Sat, 26 Aug 2023 23:00:11 +0200")
>>>>> "Romain" == Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com> writes:
> Each time a new pipeline is trigged, some jobs may fail due to temporary
> issue with a Gitlab runner (network, power supply, docker or maintainance).
> Most of the problems are "runner system failure" [1] and requires to retart
> each failed jobs manually by maintainers to complete the pipeline with only
> real failure if any.
> The "retry" keyword allows to configure how many time a job is retried if
> it fails. "retry:when" allows to retry a failed job only on specific
> failure types like "runner_system_failure".
> While at it, retry a job if it failed due to a timeout failure (this
> timeout means that the job was pending for more than 24h) [2].
> Such timeout failure occurs on pipeline testing each Buildroot's defconfig
> since there is not enough gitlab runner avaible to build all of them
> within 24h.
> Retry only jobs that are more likely to wait for a runner
> (generate-gitlab-ci-yml, runtime_test_base, defconfig_base and test_pkg).
> [1] https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/jobs/4936949397 (runner system failure)
> [2] https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/jobs/4936949530 (timeout failure or the job got stuck)
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#retrywhen
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Committed to 2023.02.x and 2023.05.x, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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2023-08-26 21:00 [Buildroot] [RFC] support/misc/gitlab-ci.yml.in: retry a job only if it failed due to a runner issue Romain Naour
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