Skip tests on Depends-on tag

[Aaron Conole]

David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> writes:

> Hello Patrick, Morten,
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 3:22 AM Patrick Robb <probb at iol.unh.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. I'm also thinking the community lab should move to an apply-patchset process like:
>>     -if commit message contains "depends-on", then:
>>         -get depends-on series id
>>         -get referenced patch series and attempt to apply, and if successful then attempt to apply original patch on that.
>>         -run testing
>>
>> I see that the github-robot reported a PASS, so they might already be doing this. I'll raise it during the next CI meeting and see what the ci group thinks or if they've discussed this before. Maybe there are some issues with this which I'm not thinking of, but we'll see what the group thinks.
>
> My two cents (and copying Aaron): the ovsrobot (for dpdk) handles some
> part of the Depends-on: series-XXX logic, indeed.
> https://github.com/ovsrobot/pw-ci/commit/f2a73a46464424e977d4f8877e9a32314e4a0a07
> https://github.com/ovsrobot/pw-ci/commit/3d263267cbd2d0c7b962aaaade9815379d03bba2
>
> If you look at the 29416 or 29417 series branch history, you'll see
> changes from series 29415:
> https://github.com/ovsrobot/dpdk/commits/series_29417

Yes - we do handle depends-on as noted.  It would be good for the lab to
support this as well.  Support shouldn't be terribly difficult to
provide to the apply process, and it seems it is getting more use lately.