Mandatory Jobs

[Ara Pulido]

On 24/08/15 16:03, Jeffrey Lane wrote:
> Ahhh, so it's "Have to run" vs "Have to Pass"?  what is a
> "mandatory_include" field?  Does it go in the job?  in a header or a
> separate section of the test plan file?  Sorry, this is all new to me,
> an example of things that changed and I never really knew about except
> by finding it by accident when reading random MRs.

This is not yet released (it is in trunk, but not in stable).

I am sure that once it gets released to stable, this new feature will be
explained in the release notes.

Thanks,
Ara.

> 
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:58 AM Maciej Kisielewski
> <maciej.kisielewski at canonical.com
> <mailto:maciej.kisielewski at canonical.com>> wrote:
> 
>     You may list the jobs that *have* to run every time the test plan is
>     used, in the `mandatory_include` field of that test plan.
>     They don't have to pass. Plainbox will just make sure they are run.
>     Some testing may be useless unless `submission_resource` job is run,
>     so this job was first to be marked as mandatory.
> 
>     On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Jeffrey Lane
>     <jeffrey.lane at canonical.com <mailto:jeffrey.lane at canonical.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Can someone please fill me in on these new things like
>         "Mandatory Jobs" and how they work and the benefits?  Sounds,
>         IIRC from previous merge requests, that it's a way to specify
>         jobs that MUST pass and I'm quite interested in that.
> 
>         Thanks
>         Jeff
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