Automating test-infra release branch job forking

[Katharine Berry]

Hi sig-release,

I am working on tooling to automate the manual config juggling currently performed by the release team test-infra role. The gist of the automation is that at branch cut time, a tool will generate a single file per release containing all the branch-specific jobs for that release.

There are two visible results of this:

- Instead of using jobs named {beta, stable1, stable2, stable3}, the jobs will instead be named after the branch they're for (e.g. {1-14, 1-13, 1-12, 1-11}). The original beta/stable naming scheme was to make it easier to handle the updates, but that didn't work out as well as was hoped.

- Because there is only one output file, only one set of OWNERS can apply. I think that these OWNERS should be sig-release. This does not imply that sig-release is responsible for fixing the jobs if they break, only that they (or sig-testing) need to stamp any changes made to the release-branch jobs.

You can see some more discussion of this on the GitHub PR introducing the tool: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/pull/12443

Let me know if you have any feedback.

Thanks!

-- Katharine

[Tim Pepper]

From: 'Katharine Berry' via kubernetes-sig-release <kubernetes-...@googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: Katharine Berry <kt...@google.com>
Date: Friday, May 3, 2019 at 11:51 AM
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Hallelujah!!!

[Aaron Crickenberger]

I'm going to assume given the lack of objections on this thread that we are clear to proceed with this plan.  I'm reviewing https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/pull/12516 before any other testgrid or job-related PRs to try and avoid rebase fun

- aaron

[Stephen Augustus]

Explicit +1. Thanks y'all!

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[Tim Pepper]

Explicit +1 from me too.

 

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Tim Pepper

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VMware Open Source Technology Center

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