[dpdk-dev] Pausing failing tests

[Lincoln Lavoie]

Hello All,

The CI group discussed an issue that has recently come up, where some
tests are failing for a well known cause.  The conclusion was, in
cases where the failure is well known or a patch is already in process
(i.e. in DPDK or a downstream project like SPDK), a DPDK maintainer
can submit a request (via bugzilla) to remove the failing test from
operation.  The CI labs will act on the ticket and then re-assign it
to the maintainer.  It is the maintainer's responsibility to then
alert the CI labs when the bug / failure is fixed and the test should
be re-enabled.  The bugzilla ticket must remain open until the test is
re-enabled.

Community CI Minutes:
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/ci/2020-November/000894.html

Example Bugzilla Ticket: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579

Cheers,
Lincoln

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Lincoln Lavoie
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