[QA] Ownership of Selenium tests

[Željko Filipin]

Thanks to everybody that provided feedback, including (but not limited to)
Mukunda, Antoine and Marko. :)

The e-mail is sent to engineering and wikitech mailing lists.

Željko

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I plan to send a version of this e-mail to engineering and wikitech lists,
> but I would like to get some feedback from a smaller and friendlier group
> first. :)
>
> I have copy/pasted the text of the e-mail message to etherpad[0] so feel
> free to leave comments there, if you prefer so.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Željko
>
> --
>
> TLDR: If you care about Selenium tests that run daily[1], please take
> ownership of repository (or repositories) that you care about.
>
> Our Selenium tests provide useful feedback, finding problems in several
> places, when there is something wrong with:
>
> #1 the repository they are testing (broken production or test code),
> #2 beta and/or production clusters,
> #3  continuous integration.
>
> It is really important that all tests that run daily are green all the
> time. I have started cleaning up tests[2-3].
>
> If there is a failure, we have to investigate and fix it as soon as
> possible, ideally in one business day. To be able to do that, we need
> contact information for each repository. I have started collecting
> information[3] from various sources.
>
> What does taking ownership mean? Your e-mail address will be added to
> Jenkins job repository configuration[4] and you will receive one e-mail a
> day per repository and job, but only if there are any failed jobs. In
> short, if you are an owner of one repository with one job, you will receive
> 0-2 e-mails a day, depending on the stability of the job.
>
> I do not care if the contact e-mail address is a person or a team. All I
> need is a reply if I send an e-mail message to that address, without having
> to be a member of a lot of mailing lists.
>
> I am completely fine with being the contact person for all repositories,
> but since I do have limited time to spend on this, it means that I will
> mostly be disabling broken tests/jobs, and focusing on fixing problems
> related to continuous integration, not problems related to broken
> production or test code.
>
> Questions? Comments? Please do let me know.
>
> Željko
> --
> 0: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/T128190
> 1: https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/Selenium/
> 2: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94150
> 3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128190
> 4:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/CICF/browse/master/jjb/selenium.yaml$1-18
>
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