[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] LLVM IRC channel flooded?

Tue May 19 15:55:23 PDT 2015

On Wed, 20 May 2015 at 02:55 Chris Matthews <chris.matthews at apple.com>
wrote:

> Just some stats, after looking through lab.llvm.org:8011
>
> Maybe these should be marked as experimental, and removed from the
> builders link on the main page.
>
> Never passed at all:
> libcxx-libcxxabi-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-cxx03
> libcxx-libcxxabi-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-ubsan
> libcxx-libcxxabi-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-tsan
> libcxx-libcxxabi-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-gcc
> libcxx-libcxxabi-x86_64-apple-darwin14-system-lib
> lldb-x86_64-ubuntu-14.04-android
> llgo-x86_64-linux
>

Hi,

llgo-x86_64-linux is mine. Sorry, I had disabled the slave agent to avoid
spurious emails, but hadn't considered its impact on the status pages. I'm
fine with disabling it altogether for now; I'm waiting on a fix to Ninja to
be merged.

Cheers,
Andrew

> Not pass in at least a month:
>
> llvm-clang-lld-x86_64-debian-fast
> clang-native-mingw32-win7
> clang-x86_64-linux-selfhost-abi-test
> clang-x64-ninja-win7-debug
> perf-x86_64-penryn-O3-polly-detect-only
> sanitizer-x86_64-linux-bootstrap
> sanitizer_x86_64-freebsd
> sanitizer-windows
> libcxx-libcxxabi-x86_64-apple-darwin14-tot-clang
> clang-amd64-openbsd
> lldb-x86_64-debian-clang
> lldb-x86_64-freebsd
> lldb-x86_64-ubuntu-14.10
>
>
> On May 19, 2015, at 11:32 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:40 AM, James Y Knight <jyknight at google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I also find the amount of bot spam in #llvm is basically
>> intolerable. It makes it difficult to see actual people talking. At first,
>> I just put all the bots on /ignore. Now I have an xchat script to move the
>> botspam to another tab (tabify-004.pl). I'd recommend that the bots
>> should just be moved to #llvm-bots and fix the problem for everyone. Those
>> who are committing changes can join that channel, too, and others don't
>> care.
>>
>> While we're on this subject, I also find the official buildbot page (
>> lab.llvm.org:8011) almost unusable, since so many columns are either
>> always red, or else are so flaky that they basically randomly alternate
>> between passing and failing. So, at a glance, it's impossible to tell
>> whether the current state of the tree is good. (I certainly haven't
>> memorized which ones are "supposed" to be red, and which are not. Maybe
>> others have). Having flaky and always-failing builds show up on the
>> buildbot pages, and notifying IRC, really has negative utility, since it
>> not only is not providing useful information, but is serving to obscure the
>> actual important failures, and causing people to spend time investigating
>> non-problems.
>>
>> Someone gave me the hint to use the http://bb.pgr.jp/ buildbot page
>> instead, which was a great recommendation -- that page shows problems much
>> more clearly. But it's unfortunate that there *needs* to be a separate
>> "sane builders only" buildmaster.
>>
>> E.g. (and not to pick on this particular bot, this is just one example of
>> many):
>> http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/clang-native-arm-cortex-a9/builds/27655 --
>> passed, while the previous failed. But, it's not caused by the commit, it's
>> just arbitrary.
>>
>> Or, yesterday, on #llvm: "Anyone want to give me a clue as to why this
>> bot failed?
>> http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/sanitizer-x86_64-linux/builds/18017"
>> -- answer: because it's randomly broken. Wasted the questioner's time
>> trying to investigate the failure.
>>
>
> Whenever you get crappy fail-mail, please forward it to llvm-dev, cc'ing
> the bot owner and request the issue be addressed or the bot be removed.
> Yeah, I know it's not an ideal process, but it's something to keep issues
> visible/pushed on.
>
> But, yes, having some more formal process to deal with this sort of thing
> would be nice (I can imagine some process along the lines of "bots start in
> experimental and need a track record of low flake/false positive results
> for some period of time before being promoted out of experimental so they
> can send mail to blame lists and IRC, etc" coupled with some mechanism for
> demoting a buildbot back into experimental if it starts behaving poorly)
>
> - David
>
>
>>
>>
>> If all the flaky or always-broken builder configurations got hidden from
>> the main pages of buildbot, and stopped sending emails/IRC notifications to
>> anyone but their "owner", that would be a substantial improvement.
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I know it's a reasonably valuable thing to have the buildbot IRC bot
>>> publishing results, but the channel is kind of flooded with the
>>> messages, and the more bots we put up, the worse it will be.
>>>
>>> I think we still need the NOC warnings, but not over IRC. The Buildbot
>>> NOC page is horrible and useless, since it doesn't know the difference
>>> between "it's red and I know it" from "it's broken".
>>>
>>> For that reason, I have built my own NOC page:
>>>
>>> http://people.linaro.org/~renato.golin/llvm/arm-bots/
>>>
>>> But that machine is too slow to cope with all bots. We may need a
>>> project to build such a system on a larger scale.
>>>
>>> However, for now, I think not printing the green results in IRC would
>>> go a long way of cleaning the channel up.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> --renato
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