QA » openQA Project

Motivation¶

Perl minion jobs are more and more important. https://openqa.opensuse.org/minion/jobs?state=failed shows at time of writing 330 failed minion jobs where some of them might be important problems that should be handled. We should display a note with link to /minion/jobs?state=failed to openQA admins, i.e. users with "admin" permission" if the number of failed jobs exceed a configurable threshold. This would bring two benefits:

1. Failed jobs that show critical problems would be handled more often for all openQA instances
2. The admin role in openQA becomes more "important" as those users would be asked to get involved more :)

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: openQA admins with permissions to handle failed minion jobs are reminded if failed jobs exceed a configured threshold
• AC2: The notification threshold has a sensible default
• AC3: Users with no permission to remove/retry/handle minion jobs do not receive a notification
• AC4: Instance admins can permanently disable the notification threshold

Suggestions¶

• Maybe a "bootstrap alert" on top of each openQA page for logged in admins if a configurable limit of failed minion jobs is exceeded?
• Compare to jenkins plugin notifications: https://www.legitsecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/A%20warning%20message%20for%20the%20vulnerable%20plugin.png