Test execution for all of PIM

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:58 PM Daniel Vrátil <dvratil at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 15 January 2019 10:44:33 CET Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:53 AM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > > Is no one from PIM world really going to answer to this?
> > >
> > > Or did release-team just got dropped from the answers?
> >
> > I've not seen any answers to this unfortunately, so unless the
> > responses only went to kde-pim, there hasn't been a response at this
> > stage.
> > *sad face*
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > >   Albert
>
>
> Sorry, I just briefly read Ben's email and thought it has already been
> disabled...so just disable the tests for now on CI. I don't currently have
> much time for KDE so unless someone else steps up to do it, it won't be fixed
> any time soon.

*nod* Thanks for confirming that's the case Dan - will disable it the
next time the issue shows up.

>
> Dan

Cheers,
Ben

>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ben
> >
> > > El divendres, 4 de gener de 2019, a les 20:26:53 CET, Ben Cooksley va
> escriure:
> > > > Hi PIM Developers,
> > > >
> > > > A few months back I reported an issue surrounding tests in various
> > > > parts of PIM which rely on Akonadi failing to cleanup after
> > > > themselves, and thus causing indefinite hangs on the CI system as they
> > > > wait for processes to exit which aren't going to exit by themselves.
> > > >
> > > > This issue is still very much active unfortunately, and is
> > > > particularly problematic for the FreeBSD and Windows builders (as
> > > > there is a limited number of them). This morning, all FreeBSD builds
> > > > were blocked by two PIM jobs just sitting there.
> > > >
> > > > Once again, akonadi_knut_resource had failed to exit as it should.
> > > >
> > > > This is a situation which cannot continue, as PIM is harming the
> > > > service all other KDE projects receive from the CI system through
> > > > these broken tests. It also requires manual Sysadmin intervention to
> > > > restore service when this occurs.
> > > >
> > > > I therefore suggest that you disable on your side, all tests that
> > > > depend on or make use of the 'akonaditest' runner framework across all
> > > > PIM repositories. The alternative is that all test execution for PIM
> > > > be disabled.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Ben
>
>
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