PR check doesn't fail even if all `passthru.tests` fail
erikarvstedt opened this issue · 5 comments
Currently, ofborg marks failing passthru.tests as neutral (grey box), so a ofborg pkg check can succeed even if the tests fail on all platforms.
This recently happend in package update PR NixOS/nixpkgs#206835, which broke the corresponding NixOS module (later fixed here).
The ofborg check was green, and the faulty PR got merged.
Here's a simple fix that would be sufficient to detect most failures:
The PR CI check should succeed only if each test in passthru.tests succeeds on at least one platform.
(A thorough, but complex alternative is to define which platforms are supported for a test in nixpkgs. ofborg should then fail if a test on a supported platform fails.)
builds not marking the pr red is intentional to avoid false-positive red-failure, mergers should check check logs themselves if they see Unexpected error: command failed
In my opinion, this gray item just isn't visible enough…
About every PR has at least one gray item…
It's like turning all warnings on, but not treating them as errors… You will just not see the important things in the noise…
This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/can-we-make-ofborg-show-broken-tests-as-red/10717/5
Would be useful if we could tell it apart from timeouts.
builds not marking the pr red is intentional to avoid false-positive red-failure, mergers should check check logs themselves if they see
Unexpected error: command failed
Do we have numbers on false positive rate of these tests? I didn't realize this was a problem, but then again I always forget to check anyway so I'd have no idea how often it's gray.