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coordination #58184: [saga][epic][use case] full version control awareness within openQA

coordination #94750: [epic] Support needles from git-cloned or separate repo if casedir points to a git-repo

[epic] Improve handling of external Git repositories (for needles)

Added by mkittler over 6 years ago. Updated 4 months ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Feature requests
Target version:
Start date:
2024-06-20
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
(Total: 0.00 h)

Description

Motivation

When working on #9906 (Show added/updated needles in editor) general problems regarding how openQA handles the Git repository came up. This ticket is only meant to describe the general problems and might be used for further discussion.

Current way it works

  1. There are two ways openQA can detect a new needle:
    1. running a job which uses the needle
    2. the needle is created in the needle editor
  2. There is a Gru task which periodically checks whether needle files are still present. It doesn't delete any entries in the openQA database. Only the absence of files is tracked. This will also not detect any new needles.
  3. When creating a needle via the needle editor, openQA commits that change to the Git repository. It also instantly creates a database entry for that needle.
  4. When removing a needle via the web interface, openQA commits the deletion to the Git repository or just removes the file. The needle is also deleted from the internal database if the needle files could be removed successfully.

Problems

  1. The feature 'Show added/updated needles in editor' only works when the new needle has been created via the needle editor or at least one job loading it has been started.
  2. When restarting a job, newly created needles are not instantly available because it takes shortly for fetch_needles to catch up (unless they are added via the needle editor). Not relevant when specifying a Git-URL via NEEDLES_DIR.
  3. Can a test immediately pick up new needles created via the needle editor when continuing in the developer mode when NEEDLES_DIR is set to a Git-URL? (#162647)
  4. In 3. and 4. (under "Current way it works") conflicts can occur. In this case openQA will push to another branch. Needles could get lost in that case. (#70774)

Subtasks 1 (0 open1 closed)

action #162647: Ensure the developer mode and its feature to reload newly created needles work when NEEDLES_DIR is a Git sourceResolvedmkittler2024-06-20

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Related issues 2 (1 open1 closed)

Related to openQA Project - action #9906: Show added/updated needles in editorResolvedmkittler2015-12-14

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Related to openQA Project - action #70774: save_needle Minion tasks fail frequently and needles could get lostNew2020-09-01

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