[NSWI004] Pipeline failing, empty answers

[Petr Tůma]

Hi Krisztian,

yes. Unfortunately, I do not think there is a good solution for this, some of the variants we have are:

- No pipeline. We thought people would prefer being notified in case they have unanswered questions, but if you would prefer having the checks disabled entirely, just delete the .gitlab-ci.yml file from your repository (alternatively, you can also disable the mail notifications in the GitLab UI etc.).

- Only check the most current quiz, so that if you skip some of the earlier ones, the error message eventually goes away. This is what we do now.

- Check everything. This would still get you the pesky error messages when there are more quizzes to be filled in, so no help in the current situation.

Petr


On 08/10/2020 10:01, Krisztian Bokor wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> So, the "Your pipeline has failed." error basically means that there are some unanswered questions in one of the two latest quizzes? I used the GitLab website yesterday to edit the graded quiz in my repository, and after every edit I got the "The edit was made successfully" message, (or something like that) but after that I received an email with the "Pipeline #133XX has failed for master"  subject each time. So the changes have been made, it's just that the script tests both of the latest quizzes and if they are incomplete it generates a pipeline error?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Krisztián Bokor
> 
> Petr Tůma <petr.tuma at d3s.mff.cuni.cz <mailto:petr.tuma at d3s.mff.cuni.cz>> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. okt. 8., Cs, 9:00):
> 
>     Hi Evan,
> 
>     the CI script always checks the latest quiz, which, in this case, is 02-code-stack-before.md. I see you have answers in the two 01 quizes, but not in the last one, which is why you see the message you see.
> 
>     If you want to check whether your answers are filled in correctly, you can use the scripts in the tools directory of the repository manually (if you want to, you can even modify the scripts to check all quizzes for you - we simply had to make some choice in the default way things are done but it is not mandated).
> 
>     Hope this helps, Petr
> 
> 
>     On 08/10/2020 08:52, Evan Nichols wrote:
>     > Hello, I have tried to push my answers for the quizzes, but my job keeps failing with exit code 1. I get warnings that my answers are empty, but right above those are my answers as I wrote them. Is this maybe a runner issue? 
>     > This is what the end of the job looks like.
>     >
>     > answers:
>     >    A1: *My anser filled in as I wrote it 
>     >    A2: *My anser filled in as I wrote it 
>     >    A3: *My anser filled in as I wrote it 
>     >    A4: *My anser filled in as I wrote it    
>     >    A5: *My anser filled in as I wrote it
>     > WARNING: empty answer for A1.
>     > WARNING: empty answer for A2.
>     > WARNING: empty answer for A3.
>     > WARNING: empty answer for A4.
>     > WARNING: empty answer for A5.
>     > WARNING: empty answer for A0.
>     > answers:
>     >   A0: ''
>     >   A1: ''
>     >   A2: ''
>     >   A3: ''
>     >   A4: ''
>     >   A5: ''
>     > Cleaning up file based variables
>     > 00:00
>     > ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1
>     >
>     > --
>     > Thanks,
>     >      Evan Nichols
>     >
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