Re: New math test failures on Fedora/33

[Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>]

       Dear Carlos,

> DJ and I have been discussing this as a project for 2021.
> 
> More importantly I think we need to shift this to CI/CD and integrate it
> into patchwork. I want to see fails reported per-patch. Then glue the
> CI/CD into that using new infrastructure (runners + builbot try bot).
> 
> I continue to feel that we need confidence to integrate new patches and
> that confidence doesn't come from build bots, but comes from CI/CD during
> review for reviewers assistance. I still want to get to 100 patches reviewed
> in a day and I need automated help to get there.
> 
> I want to see a process where we get email back immediately into a patch
> thread (consider each patch thread like a PR) and it includes a try bot
> result.
> 
> Then (and this idea I attribute to Konrad Kleine from the Red Hat Platform
> Tools team) I want the reviewer to interact with the try bot by email with
> special commands e.g. @build build-many-glibcs, to kick off a single bmg
> run with the patch in the thread that is tied to the patchwork object.
> This way the reviewer is in charge of exactly which background additional
> task is required to be carried out by CI/CD and report back the results
> in the thread for public review.

this looks quite promising!

> > I am no sure if we are allowed to run buildbots on gcc compiler farm
> > infrastructure.
>
> AFAIK we are not.
 
I asked people in charge of the gcc compiler farm and they told me that
glibc buildbots are welcome on the farm (Tulio and Adhemerval were in cc).

Paul