mozilla-services / mozilla-services/updatebot
Address infinite reprocessing of a lbrary update that is failing.
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Bug
Medium
P4
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 9
- Forks
- 8
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
If the retrigger of jobs fails, we raise an exception but don't update the job state. We'll try again. If it fails again, we will repeat. If the retrigger always fails, we'll never abort this library update.
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Research direction
Trace the retrigger failure path and the job-state handling for library updates. Reproduce a failed retrigger and verify that repeated failure reaches a terminal outcome instead of retrying indefinitely.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- devops
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100