[Intel-gfx] Policy for dealing with CI failures?

[Hans de Goede]

p.s.

Reading one of the IGT failure summary emails I see:

"If you think the reported changes have nothing to do with the changes
  introduced in Patchwork_15773_full, please notify your bug team to allow them
  to document this new failure mode, which will reduce false positives in CI."

Is there say an email address I can forward CI failure reports which
I believe to be false-positives to for this? What is the best (non IRC /
non real-time) method to contact "your bug team" ?




On 15-12-2019 22:09, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm wondering if there are any (unwritten) guidelines for how to deal with CI
> failures. Although it is great to have such an extensive CI systems, it seems
> to result in quite many false-positives.
> 
> After a couple of resubmits I've gotten 2 patch-sets to pass the BAT tests,
> but both have failed the IGT tests on what I'm reasonably sure are unrelated
> failures.
> 
> Some examples:
> 
> This single patch series has a Reviewed-by and I would like to push it to
> dinq, but it keeps failing CI:
> 
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/69902
> 
> This is a new series, which still needs reviews, etc. but it too is
> currently failing CI for what are likely reasons which are unrelated to
> the series:
> 
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/70945/
> 
> So my main, generic question is how am I supposed to deal with these
> cases. Resubmit with a [CI] prefix in the subject until things pass?
> Take a good look at the CI results and then use common sense?
> 
> Have it at least pass BAT and use common sense for IGT?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
>