[LU-19968] reduce testing for patches only affecting documentation

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Priority: Medium
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Charlie Olmstead
• Reporter: Andreas Dilger

Description

colmstea, could you look why patch https://review.whamcloud.com/64508 ("LU-19736 man: Add man page for llapi_get_obd_count") did not trigger the auto{{-trivial}} functionality in Autotest? The patch isn't modifying any code files, only man pages and the Makefile.am under Documentation/ so that should be pretty safe (TBH building the patch would be enough, and running any testing adds no value).

Instead, this patch ran a full test session, about 180h these days when the optional sessions are included, which is overkill. That is especially true when I saw hundreds of other test sessions running today...

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-20170 ATM: Use changed.py from master
• is related to: LU-930 Update or improvement to a Lustre man page, documentation, or messages
• is related to: LU-19211 Don't enforce testing for LNDs that can't be tested by Autotest
• is related to: LU-19736 Add man page for llapi_get_obd_count()