634994 - Need test for checking reloads when new files added to reloading in configs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

When landing https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=512560 I had to reconfig twice on the test-masters (interestingly not the builder-masters) in order to get the new project_branches (including maple,cedar,birch) picked up.

Need a script that can check this so something that updates to an old revision, imports config, updates to new revision, and reloads, so we can see what's going on

Comment 1

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

This is not something I will be actively working on, so putting it into the releng pool for now to be dealt with later - or perhaps we will get to a point where we either stop reconfiging (and do graceful shutdown & start up a new master instance) or some other solution is discovered.

Comment 2

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

I don't really understand the problem from above, but this might call for
  http://washort.twistedmatrix.com/2011/01/introducing-exocet.html

Comment 3

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

So the context is about the 'dance' that needs to occur in the top of our config files with import & reload in a particular order.  The problem is that some configuration passes a checkconfig but not a reconfig because modules can't be located.

Comment 4

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

Ah, ok - that's exactly what exocet is meant to fix, at least as far as I understand it.

Comment 5

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Stumbled upon this and it seems like something that will never really happen as we are mostly focusing on getting our configs separate from the automation so that reconfigs as we know them wouldn't be necessary.