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[Brendan Donegan <brendan.donegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does this mean that it will not be possible for it to attain the QA
sign-off needed status? Or would it be possible to get into that state
before becoming dirty? I suppose it would but just checking

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to point out that CI Train has grown a new feature that
> will hopefully reduce wasted man-hours:
>
> In the event that there are multiple silos containing the same
> packages (which we call "conflicting silos"), and one of those silos
> gets published, the other silos will now be marked as 'dirty',
> indicating that the silo needs to be rebuilt.
>
> The 'dirty' status will appear in both the spreadsheet and the
> dashboard, and it will look like "SILO DIRTY: You must rebuild: foo,
> bar, grill".
>
> Rebuilds have always been required in this case, because if you were
> to publish a dirty silo without rebuilding, it would effectively
> revert the changes made by the other silo that published first. The
> difference now is that you can actually see which silos are dirty as
> soon as they become dirty, rather than having a nasty surprise at
> publish-time.
>
> This is an important change because recently I've seen a number of
> cases where a silo was dirty, but it went for QA anyway, QA spent many
> hours verifying the silo, and then I published the silo only to
> discover it had been dirty all along and all the QA effort was wasted.
>
> So, QA people, if you see a silo marked 'SILO DIRTY', stop QA'ing it!
> it's a total and complete waste of your time to even look at a dirty
> silo.
>
> Once a dirty silo is rebuilt, then the lander can resubmit it for QA.
>
> I hope people find this helpful! If you find any issues (with this
> feature or with the train in general), please file bugs against
> lp:cupstream2distro and assign them directly to me ('robru' on
> launchpad and IRC).
>
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