Notice of withdrawal of CI services: KDevelop and KDE Connect

[Ben Cooksley]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 8:44 AM Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:

> On Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2021 20:28:25 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > Hi all,

>
> > The following is notice that I intend to withdraw CI services from the
> > following two KDE projects due to faults in their code or build system
> > which are having a significant adverse impact on the CI system and
> > negatively impacting on other projects:
> >
> > - KDevelop
> > - KDE Connect
> >
> > This withdrawal will be applied to all platforms.
> >
> > In the case of KDevelop, it has a series of unit tests which on FreeBSD
> > cause gdb to hang and consume an entire CPU core indefinitely. This slows
> > down builds for all other projects using that CI server, and also
> prevents
> > KWin tests from proceeding - completely blocking it's jobs. This fault is
> > in the debuggee_slow family of tests.
>
> Hey Ben,
>

Hi Milian,


>
> first time I hear of this issue. I simply don't have the capacity to track
> kdevelop CI mails, so if anything really bad happens, I would really
> appreciate if anyone who notices that sents a mail to the kdevelop mailing
> list so we can act on it. I still use kdevelop daily, but don't put any
> other
> work in it currently due to lack of time...
>

The issue in question was noted on #kdevelop (prior to the whole Freenode
meltdown) on a few occasions.


>
> That said: can we just disable it on the FreeBSD platform, if that's the
> only
> one that exhibits this failure? Alternatively I'm obviously fine with
> skipping
> that test on that platform, can you give me a link to a failure please so
> I
> can see which tests exactly are affected? Then I'll add the QSKIP +
> platform
> ifdef checks to skip it on freebsd.
>

I'm afraid I only have records of the hung test processes (and the gdb
processes above them using an entire CPU core indefinitely each).

jenkins    60635   0.0  0.0   12120   2256  0  TXs+ 02:44         0:00.00
/usr/home/jenkins/workspace/KDevelop/kdevelop/kf5-qt5
FreeBSDQt5.15/build/plugins/debuggercommon/tests/debuggees/debuggee_debugeeslow
(debuggee_debugeeslo)
jenkins    74167   0.0  0.0   12120   2260  1  TXs+ 02:55         0:00.00
/usr/home/jenkins/workspace/KDevelop/kdevelop/kf5-qt5
FreeBSDQt5.15/build/plugins/debuggercommon/tests/debuggees/debuggee_debugeeslow
(debuggee_debugeeslo)

Hopefully that is enough to identify the tests that are broken?


>
> Cheers and thanks for letting me know about this problem
>
> --
> Milian Wolff
> mail at milianw.de
> http://milianw.de


Thanks,
Ben
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