667042 - client.py failures should cause builds to be automatically respun

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Messaging Graveyard :: Release Engineering, defect)

Description

[John Hopkins (:jhopkins)]

When client.py fails to check out sources, it is up to the user to resubmit their build.  Ideally, this should be automatically handled using the buildbot 'retry' logic.

Comment 1

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

for what its worth, we have an internal-to-client.py retry logic.

You can bump the retries via command-line arg to client.py. If this is about using the buildbot 'retry' logic, that might be harder especially coupled with the work gozer is headed toward.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This isn't about the internal retry logic. Sometimes client.py does fail, even trying a download twice (e.g. hmo error)

What we're looking at here is that if client.py fails, then the build should be automatically respun using the build exception (purple) mechanism.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

At the moment, the client.py process is embedded into the make process. Considering this, I don't think we can do too much about that at the moment, so I think whilst this is ideal, given the internal logic client.py has, this is wontfix for now.