[PATCH] CI: Add automatic retry for test.py jobs

Simon Glass sjg at google.com
Wed Jul 12 16:00:23 CEST 2023


Hi Tom,

On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 at 20:33, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> It is not uncommon for some of the QEMU-based jobs to fail not because
> of a code issue but rather because of a timing issue or similar problem
> that is out of our control. Make use of the keywords that Azure and
> GitLab provide so that we will automatically re-run these when they fail
> 2 times. If they fail that often it is likely we have found a real issue
> to investigate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> ---
>  .azure-pipelines.yml | 1 +
>  .gitlab-ci.yml       | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>

This seems like a slippery slope. Do we know why things fail? I wonder
if we should disable the tests / builders instead, until it can be
corrected?

I'll note that we don't have this problem with sandbox tests.

Regards,
Simon


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