Does this mean that it will not be possible for it to attain the QA sign-off needed status? Or would it be possible to get into that state before becoming dirty? I suppose it would but just checking
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Robert Park <robert.p...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to point out that CI Train has grown a new feature that > will hopefully reduce wasted man-hours: > > In the event that there are multiple silos containing the same > packages (which we call "conflicting silos"), and one of those silos > gets published, the other silos will now be marked as 'dirty', > indicating that the silo needs to be rebuilt. > > The 'dirty' status will appear in both the spreadsheet and the > dashboard, and it will look like "SILO DIRTY: You must rebuild: foo, > bar, grill". > > Rebuilds have always been required in this case, because if you were > to publish a dirty silo without rebuilding, it would effectively > revert the changes made by the other silo that published first. The > difference now is that you can actually see which silos are dirty as > soon as they become dirty, rather than having a nasty surprise at > publish-time. > > This is an important change because recently I've seen a number of > cases where a silo was dirty, but it went for QA anyway, QA spent many > hours verifying the silo, and then I published the silo only to > discover it had been dirty all along and all the QA effort was wasted. > > So, QA people, if you see a silo marked 'SILO DIRTY', stop QA'ing it! > it's a total and complete waste of your time to even look at a dirty > silo. > > Once a dirty silo is rebuilt, then the lander can resubmit it for QA. > > I hope people find this helpful! If you find any issues (with this > feature or with the train in general), please file bugs against > lp:cupstream2distro and assign them directly to me ('robru' on > launchpad and IRC). > > -- > qa-team mailing list > qa-t...@lists.canonical.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/qa-team >
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