Duplicate Requests in autopkgtest-cloud

[Athos Ribeiro]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 10:01:50AM +0100, Tim Andersson wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>
>This is something I missed in the initial implementation, but there's now
>an MP for a fix ready to go into master. Right now, however, I've hotfixed
>prod so that if you pass `all-proposed`, the duplicate request check is
>disabled. I made this quick change to unblock ginggs

Hi Tim,

is the hotfix still up?

I just got a request with all-proposed blocked because a request without
it was queued.

>
>On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 5:19 AM Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:10:05AM +0100, Tim Andersson wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>>
>> > In the Ubuntu QA team we recently made and deployed a change which now
>> > makes it impossible to queue duplicate requests.
>>
>> > If a request is currently in the queue, or is currently running, and you
>> > request the same test, you will be taken to an error page which tells you
>> > the test details and whether it is currently queued or currently running.
>> > It looks like this:
>> > ```
>> >
>> > You submitted an invalid request:
>> >
>> > Test already queued:
>> >
>> > release: lunar
>> >
>> > pkg: gzip
>> >
>> > arch: arm64
>> >
>> > triggers: gzip/1.12-1ubuntu1
>> >
>> > ```
>> > This is to try and ease the load on autopkgtest-cloud.
>>
>> > If you experience any bugs or unexpected functionality, please file a bug
>> > against `autopkgtest-cloud` and let us know. We expect it to work
>> > seamlessly but always expect the unexpected right :)
>>
>> Does the code also properly distinguish between tests queued with
>> proposed=1
>> and those without, so that it's possible to queue both ways in parallel?
>>
>> Thanks,

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Athos Ribeiro