Retester

What Is Retester?

Retester is a tool that evaluate which pull requests should be retested, and then retest by @openshift-ci-robot ’s commenting /retest-required on the pull requests.

How Do We Set up Retester?

Retester completely reuses tide configuration, whatever onboards to Tide, gets onboarded to retester too. Retester is aware of Prow and the concept of optional and required jobs. It only triggers retests on PRs where at least one required Prow job is failing.

We can enable the retester on a repository or for the entire organization in its configuration file.

Config file

There are 3 levels of policy in the configuration file: retester (global), org, repo. If a field of policy is defined at two levels, the value at the more specific level precedes. The values in the more generic level are inherited if they are not defined in the more specific level.

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`enabled`:
  - `true`: enable retester
  - `false`: disable retester
  - not defined: use the value in the above level
`max_retests_for_sha_and_base`: the number of retesting for each sha and base
`max_retests_for_sha`: the number of retesting for each sha

Retests are paused after max_retests_for_sha_and_base attempts against one base/PR HEAD combination, and the PR is explicitly held (/hold) after max_retests_for_sha retests of a single PR HEAD.