On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 at 20:51, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, 2025-02-15 at 14:54 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 02:40:29PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2025-02-14 at 16:31 -0500, Dusty Mabe wrote:
> > > > IMO the bar would only need to be that high if the user had no way
> to ignore the test results.
> > > > All gating does here (IIUC) is require them to do an extra step
> before it automatically flows
> > > > into the next rawhide compose.
> > >
> > > again, technically, yes, but *please* let's not train people to have a
> > > pavlovian reaction to waive failures, that is not the way.
> >
> > IMO, the bar for *gating* tests needs to be high. I think 95% true
> > positives would be a reasonable threshold.
>
> Do you mean 95% of failures must be 'real' (i.e. up to 5% can be
> 'false')? Is this after automatic retries and manual intervention by
> the test system maintainers, or before?
>
> Off the top of my head, 95% seems low. I'm pretty sure we do better
> than that with openQA and people would complain if that was all we
> managed. We usually maintain a 0% false failure rate after auto-retries
> and <24h manual intervention -
>
> https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/group_overview/2?limit_builds=100&limit_builds=400
> has 0 false failures ATM.
>

Thanks, that's interesting. What do you call <24h manual intervention? One
example that comes to mind would be to disable or snooze a test that
started to trigger false failures in under 24h.
If that's the case, I think that sounds achievable.


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