2026-03-25 sig-ci quarantine catch-up notes

[Ying Cui]

2026-03-25 sig-ci quarantine catch-up

When: Weekly on Wed, 9:45 – 10:15am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: dollierp, ycui, dywhite, nirdothan

Reminders:

• we will create GitHub issues for tracking

• GitHub issues and PRs

• should be marked with /sig ci and /kind flake if applicable

• should be marked with the target sig

• kubevirt quarantine process documentation

Topics:

• [urgent]

• [dollierp] https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16885 is causing a lot of failed jobs which are ending with logs similar to
  Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it…
  + rm -f /tmp/kubevirt.deploy.C6Jf
  make: *** [Makefile:188: cluster-sync] Error
  Should we consider reverting it?

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17285 - reverted

• Synced with Alex Kalenyuk, we reverted his PR to stabilize CI. 

• [ycui] Simple jobs such as https://storage.googleapis.com/kubevirt-prow/pr-logs/pull/kubevirt_kubevirt/17253/pull-kubevirt-code-lint/2036620529485484032/build-log.txt keep failing.

• What is next? 

• Denis Ollier Pinas will check it. 

• https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/CNV-80466

• We prioritized it in current sprint 286.  

• [ycui] https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16889 has all it test passing, but it got a /hold from the bot.

• We need to check why the plugin adds the hold the PR. it was noticed that several PRs were affected by the /hold label by the referee although maybe they shouldn’t have.

• Denis Ollier Pinas created card to Daniel Hiller to clarify the behaviour: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/CNV-82725

• ci-health

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• Nir Dothan will help to research the 5 failures in CI: https://github.com/kubevirt/ci-health/blob/main/output/kubevirt/kubevirt/ci-failures/summary.md

• 5x: 2026-03-20 13:04:14 +0000 UTC: make: *** [Makefile:176: cluster-down] Error 125 build-log

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• [ycui] Questions

• retest 38-14=24

• How can we improve this rate for merged pr with 0 retest? We will schedule the dedicated meeting to talk about the retest in kubevirt CI. 

• https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/CNV-82558 draft the card for rerun rules

• review and merge the quarantine PRs in 2 working days without SIG lgtm. 

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+quarantine+-label%3Ado-not-merge%2Fwork-in-progress+label%3Akind%2Fflake+-label%3Aneeds-rebase

• 0 this week. 

• [ycui] auto-quarantine status?

• Daniel Hiller Can you provide the update? 

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17149 

• previous action items

• state of existing issues: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Akind%2Fflake+sort%3Aupdated-asc+label%3Asig%2Fci

• [non-urgent]

• [nirdothan] https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirtci/pull/1645 this PR doesn’t work. Requesting Dennis’ assistance

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirtci/pull/1655

• Look at flakes

• most flaky tests

• 0 recent week.

Regards,

Ying

CNV CI