[Development] CI stability

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Feb 9 18:42:34 CET 2017


On quarta-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2017 09:46:36 PST Lars Knoll wrote:
> The second larger issue are flaky tests, ie. tests that fail randomly from
> time to time. These tests are causing huge issues in CI, and especially
> make qt5.git integrations that are required for releasing and to get
> updated packages very painful. The flakiness of the tests and also the
> flakiness in the CI system itself (which is a separate item for the team
> working on the CI) is one of the main reasons why releases are getting
> delayed.

Could we somehow fix the CI so that operations that take a couple of 
microseconds on a developer machines don't take 10000x more in the CI? I 
understand slow machines, but 4 or 5 orders of magnitude is not something we 
can account for.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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