Build farmer handoff 2019-08-07

[wjwwood]

Outgoing @wjwwood, from #216
Incoming @cottsay

Consistent failures (high priority)

• Failing test related to emulate_tty on Windows: Failing test related to emulate_tty on Windows nightly launch#298
• SROS2 test failure only on Windows: test_generate_policy fails on Windows sros2#143
• test_find_container_node_names fails consistently on Windows: test_find_container_node_names fails consistently on Windows #223
• test_ros2action failure: test_ros2action started failing last night across all platforms #222

Known flaky tests and recurring failures

• Pendulum tests fail on aarch64 with OpenSplice Linux Opensplice pendulum tests fail on aarch64 #133
• Some builds fail to wipe the workspace due to processes from previous builds still running Job failed to delete workspace #161
• gtest_multithreaded tests are flakey Flaky gtest_multithreaded__rmw_{opensplice,fastrtps}_cpp #180
• tf2_ros_test_message_filter test is flakey tf2_ros_test_message_filter is flakey #183
• Linux test_component_manager fails on Linux repeated test_component_manager_api failed on Linux repeated #184
• Linux test_cli_remapping is flakey Nightly linux debug remapping tests failed #194
• Linux aarch64 test_parameter_server is flakey Linux aarch64 repeated failed test_parameter_server #201
• Windows debug fails test_communications WString Windows debug failed test_communications connext WStrings test #203
• Windows debug fails test_waitiable Windows debug failed test_waitable #204
• Linux aarch64 test_lifecycle fails Linux aarch64 repeated failed test_lifecycle #205
• rosbag2 test_play is flakey Linux aarch64 repeated failed rosbag2 test_play #210
• Windows parameter tests are flakey Windows nightly debug parameter tests are flakey #211

Outstanding buildfarmer tasks

• Try to reduce the number of Windows failures due to not being able to delete files due to zombie processes from previous builds:
  • kill existing colcon when stating CI on Windows to avoid file locks ci#323

[jacobperron]

SROS 2 failure on Windows should be resolved by ros2/sros2#155