[hibernate-dev] Keeping CI from being confusing.

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 17 December 2017 at 14:18, Davide D'Alto <daltodavide at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think using "Slave" alone might be goo enough.

+1 All jobs should use "Slave" unless there is need for an exception
to this rule :)

The known exceptions currently are:
 - the one ORM job which tests using HANA, which should use the "HANA" label
 - the jobs building websites, which shouldn't need any label.

HTH

> It's generic and in the future, if we have some other different clouds,
> jobs can use some additional labels to be more specific
>
> At the moment, I think the only labels we need are: Master, Slave and HANA
>
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> Perhaps I am just dense here, but I still have no idea what you are
>> expecting me to use as the label for my ORM jobs
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 12:53 PM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 16 December 2017 at 16:44, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>> > For the main ORM job I see someone changed the label to "AWS&&Slave",
>>> which
>>> > is obviously different from the "Slave" label you recommended.
>>> Basically at
>>> > this point I am completely lost as to what to use for these labels.
>>>
>>> We used to have machines on either OS1 or AWS (two different clouds).
>>> ORM jobs used to require AWS as only the nodes on AWS have enough
>>> memory.
>>> Today using "AWS" is fine but not required as all our nodes are on AWS.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Since I did not add this "AWS&&Slave" I am going to leave it alone.  For
>>> the
>>> > other ORM jobs, I do see many have the "OS1" label.  I can fix those to
>>> > "Slave".  But I have to ask... if "Slave" is the more appropriate value
>>> for
>>> > the vast majority of builds, can't that just be the default?  What if we
>>> > leave off the label?  As you say, labels are supposed to indicate that
>>> the
>>> > job "requires such capabilities" as in the capabilities implied by that
>>> > label.  But if a job has no such requirement, why is it a requirement to
>>> add
>>> > any label?
>>>
>>> The machine identified as "Master" actually runs the ci.hibernate.org
>>> main service and various other important services (e.g.
>>> in.relation.to) so we'd like to keep any non necessary load from it;
>>> also it doesn't have all the databases installed which many jobs might
>>> need.
>>> The only reason it's listed as a node capable to run a CI job at all
>>> is that it's useful to keep it available for some specific jobs,
>>> specifically we had problems with urgent changes to the website
>>> getting stuck in a long and busy build queue; the decision was to
>>> allow website publication jobs to be executed directly by the master
>>> node.
>>> Essentially, it helps with priorities.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 6:31 AM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I see many jobs are still explicitly configured to request a build on
>>> >> slaves tagged as "OS1".
>>> >>
>>> >> Please get rid of that: we have no longer any slave running on OS1,
>>> >> some of the new slaves use the "OS1" label to allow a smooth migration
>>> >> - but it's a lie and it's been a long time since we removed OS1.
>>> >>
>>> >> I will need to eventually cleanup such things, as it's getting messy
>>> >> and confusing.
>>> >>
>>> >> Labels are expected to be used to tag specific slaves to have specific
>>> >> capabilities, so that some jobs can flag they require such
>>> >> capabilities.
>>> >>
>>> >> Typically the only label you need is "Slave" as we don't want most
>>> >> jobs to run on the master node.
>>> >>
>>> >> An example of a valid label is "HANA" for the job running integration
>>> >> tests on the HANA database; for obvious reasons this job needs to be
>>> >> run on the only slave actually having HANA running.
>>> >>
>>> >> While at it, if you installed any Jenkins plugin which you no longer
>>> >> need please remove it.
>>> >>
>>> >> General reminder: there's no dedicated team to keep CI or
>>> >> infrastructure running efficiently, we're all responsible so try to
>>> >> dedicate it some 20 minutes every month making sure your jobs are
>>> >> still necessary and configurations are up to date.
>>> >> For more extensive operations ask Davide or myself and we'll see to
>>> help.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >> Sanne
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