CI Task Force Projects

This page tracks ideas for improving the stability and throughput of the DAOS CI system. This just supplements Jira for communication & progress reporting purposes.

All the individual improvement ideas are tracked in Jira epic DAOS-3929.

Ticket(s)	Task	Status
CORCI-717	Node failures are often the cause of intermittent CI issues but need console log to debug	todo
CORCI-711	HW nodes are provisioned from snapshot, fix out-of-space and other cruft issues that cause intermittent failures	todo
DAOS-3607	Increase flexibility to run different groupings of tests by running from RPMs	in-progress
CORCI-843	If a change impacts files in the "doc" directory then skip unnecessary build/test cycles.	in-progress
DCO-9105	Add a jira field for bugs that can be incremented everytime the issue is seen	todo
	Investigate GitHub Checks as an alternative to the commit statuses that we currently use	todo
	Investigate moving more error reporting out of Jenkins Workflow steps and into JUnit results	todo
	Data-mine Jenkins for statistics on how many PR commits are test retries as a metric of how often we are hitting intermittent failures see if we can determine the failure	todo
	Data-mine Jenkins for statistics on how many PR commits have actual patches to rectify failed tests see if we can determine which tests are catching failures the most frequently and least frequently	todo