Point out that non-voting jobs are skipped in the readme

From time to time we get a query change proposed that only hits on a
non-voting job and we have to explain why we don't accept those, so add
some wording to the readme about why non-voting jobs are skipped.

Example: I6e4c031b1f3a8ea8ec910bc70510971972d052d3

Change-Id: I9c3ce7cbfa6fe841c31f9f4b39ff75bea900b691
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Matt Riedemann 2015-07-02 13:49:51 -07:00
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@ -86,8 +86,12 @@ stack that can cause many tempest tests to fail.
<http://logs.openstack.org/>`_ and try to find a log that is associated with
the failure. The closer to the root cause the better.
Note that queries can only be written against INFO level and higher log
- Note that queries can only be written against INFO level and higher log
messages. This is by design to not overwhelm the search cluster.
- Since non-voting jobs are not allowed in the gate queue and e-r is
primarily used for tracking bugs in the gate queue, it doesn't spend time
tracking race failures in non-voting jobs since they are considered
unstable by definition (since they don't vote).
#. Go to `logstash.openstack.org <http://logstash.openstack.org/>`_ and create
an elastic search query to find the log message from step 1. To see the
@ -117,7 +121,7 @@ an aggregation of all failed gate jobs that don't currently have elastic-recheck
fingerprints.
Future Work
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- Move config files into a separate directory
- Make unit tests robust