[QA] Gerrit cleanup day - QA ramifications

[Legoktm]

On 08/19/2015 04:52 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> This is a heads up and discussion starter about the upcoming "Gerrit
> Cleanup Day" (see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88531).

Is it too late to rename it to DDoS jenkins day? ;-)

> tl;dr: On Wed Sept. 23rd there will be a concerted effort to reduce the
> backlog of open patchsets in Gerrit (by reviewing and/or merging them,
> as appropriate). What does this mean for us, those who care about
> quality and site stability?

Everyone should care about quality and site stability, and if they
don't, they shouldn't be +2'ing patches.

> What can we do as a group to ensure that all of the code that does get
> merged during this day doesn't significantly reduce the quality of our
> codebase? A site outage the following week would be A Bad Thing(TM).

* Make sure people do not override jenkins when it starts randomly
failing due to disks filling up or being overloaded resulting in timeouts
* Make sure people aren't merging patches that don't have tests in areas
where it isn't totally impossible to write tests

> Two basic response:
> 1) do nothing out of the ordinary (iow: trust our current processes)

Probably this. It's just like a remote hackathon I guess.

-- Legoktm