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Motivation¶

Currently, git_clone minion jobs fail when GitLab is temporarily unreachable (see #178492), by introducing a proper error-handling mechanism, we can ensure:

• Temporary outages do not cause unnecessary job failures or alerts.

User Story¶

"As a test engineer and openQA operator,
i want openQA to handle short-lived GitLab outages without causing mass Minion job failures,
so that users do not experience unnecessary disruption

Acceptance Criteria¶

• AC1: Temporary remote git outages don't cause failing minion jobs
• AC2: An update of remote git repositories is still ensured on shorter failed requests, e.g. in range of seconds

Suggestions¶

• Damage is likely limited. If we can't sync needles nobody can edit needles.
• Jobs end up incomplete if there's an on-going issue with git_clone minion jobs
• We could decide to eventually give up and continue anyway and let jobs run