Replacing submit-queue with tide for kubernetes/community

[Aaron Crickenberger]

tl;dr as a contributor you should see no difference in the workflow you use to contribute, review, and approve PR's for the kubernetes/community repo

Tide [1] is a thing SIG Testing been working on to replace the submit-queue [2].  It uses github queries instead of webhooks to select pools of PR's instead of an ordered queue of PR's.  For more information on why, see the proposal / design doc [3].

We've been using tide against kubernetes/test-infra for ~three months, kubernetes/federation for ~two months, and recently enabled it for (among other repos) kubernetes/kubectl and kubernetes/charts.  As I mentioned during SIG Testing's Oct 19 update to the community [4], our goal is to replace the submit-queue for all kubernetes repos.

I would like to do this tomorrow for kubernetes/community [5]

I'm e-mailing kubernetes-dev about this to give you a heads up that this is happening.  We recognize tide needs docs [6] and could stand to use a nicer UI before we enable tide on a highly-tested, high-traffic repo like kubernetes/kubernetes.  Turning on tide for kubernetes/community will expose it to a larger audience to help get us there.

Questions and feedback welcome.

- aaron

[1] http://prow.k8s.io/tide.html

[2] https://submit-queue.k8s.io/#/queue

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z4UPEAFE7_36CKEYKPYGWKFjJyXxbodG26enakn2hMA/edit#

[4] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sAH-74kIGROvM5MhyAkbJPVcuE9-RDHiOqfv_4PAGdw/edit#heading=h.vkrjhaerqqr6

[5] https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/pull/6019

[6] https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/issues/5919

[Clayton Coleman]

Tide is awesome, I’m glad to see it continues to get better and better!  Thanks for all the hard work from the entire sig-testing team.

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[Aaron Crickenberger]

This is now done.

Congrats @alpha-san and @cblecker, https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/1532 wins the award for first kubernetes/community PR to be merged by tide!

- aaron

[Michail Kargakis]

We also use it in a bunch of Openshift repos and it works great so far.

[Aaron Crickenberger]

Hi all,

Brief update on where we're at with tide now:

- we're now using tide to handle 11 repos in github.com/kubernetes

- kubernetes/kubernetes is the only remaining repo to use submit-queue

- tide's UI is looking much nicer, thanks @BenTheElder! https://prow.k8s.io/tide.html

- @spxtr will be updating tide to set a more user-friendly status context on PR's: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/issues/6145

- aaron