Software Shifter Summary week 3 and 4

Summary:

Unfortunately the previous 2 weeks suffered a few different network problems which played havoc with the Jenkins nightly and ci-test build systems. These should all now be resolved. Some additional fixes/improvements to ci-test are being progressed to address issues that came up in running tests over the last week or so.

Status of MR on Mon 3rd Feb:

149 MR targeting master 81 WIP, 10 ready for merging, several MR in need of new references, ~15 in nightly testing with most builds/tests working as expected.

Comments to next shifter:

The maintainer App appears to have a few gotchas but is useful: http://apearce.web.cern.ch/apearce/maintainer-app/

I've tried to setup a service to track MRs via a flowchart with some automatic gitlab integration: http://rta-mon.cern.ch/board/1 This automatically tracks the status of MRs wrt open/close WIP/non-WIP and tracks different projects by different colours.

MR summary:

Ready to Merge

link(s)	status
Rec!1858 (merged) !345 (merged) Brunel!943 (merged)	Should be ready for merging
Lbcom!412 (merged)	Should be good to merge
Lbcom!411 (merged)	Should be good to merge
Lbcom!402 (merged)	Should be good to merge
LHCb!2298 (merged) LHCb!2297 (merged)	Should be good to merge as soon as LHCb!2297 (merged) is approved
LHCb!2293 (merged)	Should be good to merge
LHCb!2299 (merged)	Should be good to merge

Once a MR is good to be merged, does it make sense to keep it tagged in a nightly slot just in-case something gets committed which breaks an MR between it getting signed off and passing a ci-test?

MRs in nightly testing

link(s)	tag	status
Gaudi!942	all-slots	doc changes
Gaudi!1063	lhcb-gaudi-head	changes for ROOT-6.18
Phys!633 (merged)	lhcb-gaudi-head	Looks good, can be merged?
Rec!1903 (merged)	lhcb-test-throughput	throughput drop appears understood
LHCb!2270 (merged) (WIP) LHCb!2338 (merged) LHCb!2339 (merged) Rec!1892 (merged) Rec!2893 (merged) Rec!1895 (merged) LHCb!2343 (merged) LHCb!2341 (merged) LHCb!2342 (merged) Phys!650 (merged) Rec!1896 (merged)	Lots of inter-dependent MRs (LHCb#73 (closed)) some WIP, some bugs need identifying

MRs needing review from coding expert

link(s)	status
!354 (merged)	looks good for merging, needs approval
Rec!1879 (merged)	Needs testing/approving, was waiting on gaudi release
Rec!1893 (merged)	Review pending, there has been recent development
Rec!1904 (merged) Brunel!947 (merged)	Needs comment and possibly testing to make sure no tests break
Lbcom!416 (merged)	Needs review but passes tests. OK to merge?
Lbcom!415 (merged)	Needs review but passes tests. OK to merge?
Lbcom!413 (merged)	Needs review but passes tests. OK to merge?
Lbcom!399 (merged) LHCb!2290 (merged)	Many failing Boole tests does this need work or new refs?
LHCb!2343 (merged)	needs to be approved but close to being ready

MRs with new References

MR link(s)	new Reference	status
Rec!1858 (merged) !345 (merged)	Brunel!943 (merged)	Should be ready for merging
LHCb!2303 (merged)	Rec!1869 (merged)	needs testing with new references
	!381 (closed)	needs sensitivities updating
Rec!1903 (merged)	!383 (merged)	looks correct to merge if new ref fixes tests

MRs which need testing

link(s)	status
Rec!1882 (merged)	needs new ref from new test
Rec!1861 (merged)	needs new test to get new refs
Lbcom!410 (merged)	needs new Boole Ref (probably new ci-test needs to be run)
Lbcom!409 (merged)	needs ref updating, logs lost
Lbcom!408 (merged)	needs ref updating, logs lost
Lbcom!401 (merged) Boole!255 (merged)	Tests in Boole are still failing
Rec!1894 (merged) Phys!658 (merged)	needs testing with ci-test
LHCb!2297 (merged)	needs testing with ci-test
!377 (merged) LHCb!2270 (merged)	needs testing with ci-test
LHCb!2354 (merged) Rec!1902 (merged)	testing ongoing
LHCb!2295 (merged)	Appears to need Brunel!933 (closed)
LHCb!2290 (merged)	Not clear if needs update for failing Boole tests

Active MRs in development

link(s)	status
Rec!1728 (merged)	appears in development
Rec!1772 (closed)	suspected problems with thoughput
Rec!1775 (closed)	lots of open discussions
Rec!1831 (closed)	lots of open discussions
Rec!1870 (merged)	tests revealed problems, being reviewed
Rec!1872 (merged)	under review
Rec!1902 (merged)	ready for testing
!361 (merged)	work to fix bugs
LHCb!2309 (merged)	close to being ready for testing
LHCb!2289 (merged)	discussions ongoing
LHCb!2257 (closed)	many open discussions
Brunel!947 (merged) Rec!1904 (merged)	Added new test which is failing, this should be checked

New MRs

link(s)	status
Phys!658 (merged)
Mooore!383	new Ref for Rec!1903 (merged)