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Summary

The PR pipeline (cloudai-ci) runs every check in one Jenkins job. This splits it into a launcher that fans out to one small job per stage, the same shape as ai-dynamo/nixl (nixl-ci-dispatcher) and openucx/ucc (ucc-ci-dispatcher).

Blossom ──> CloudAI/CI/cloudai-ci (launcher, .ci/Jenkinsfile.launcher)
              ├─> cloudai-ci-copyright  .ci/pipeline/copyright_matrix.yaml  Check copyrights
              ├─> cloudai-ci-secrets    .ci/pipeline/secrets_matrix.yaml    Secret scan
              ├─> cloudai-ci-coverity   .ci/pipeline/coverity_matrix.yaml   Coverity scan
              └─> cloudai-ci-coverage   .ci/pipeline/coverage_matrix.yaml   Coverage
  • The launcher resolves refs/pull/<n>/merge to one commit (getMergedSHA(), as NIXL and UCC do), so all four leaves test the same commit.
  • Each leaf runs the existing .ci/Jenkinsfile with its own conf_file and posts its own cloudai-ci-<leaf> status, which is where a failure shows. The launcher closes blossom-ci, the status the Blossom workflow leaves pending, and fails it only if dispatching breaks. This is the NIXL dispatcher's model: re-running just a failed leaf in Jenkins clears the PR, and nothing stays stale (HPCINFRA-4884). One failing leaf doesn't stop the others.
  • Stage bodies are unchanged. Each matrix's docker entry and step match .ci/job_matrix.yaml on main (compared as parsed YAML).

Naming. The release pipeline is moving into this repository, so each pipeline gets its own CloudAI/<Name>/ Jenkins subfolder, cloudai-<name> job prefix and JJB project. This pipeline is ci (the team's name for it), and release can be added as release without touching it. Files follow the .ci layout the other ci-demo projects use: matrices in .ci/pipeline/, the launcher next to .ci/Jenkinsfile, and proj_jjb.yaml and header-check.yml shared.

Jenkins-side changes.

  • The single job CloudAI/cloudai-ci is replaced by the CloudAI/CI/ subfolder. The launcher keeps the webhook token cloudai-ci, so CI_SERVER is <jenkins-url>@cloudai-ci again. blossom-ci.yml is unchanged.
  • PR statuses change from cloudai-ci to the four cloudai-ci-<leaf> statuses, plus blossom-ci, which now gets closed. No status checks are required on main yet; the four cloudai-ci-<leaf> checks are the ones to require.
  • Each job sets its Jenkinsfile in script-path directly; the unused script parameter is gone.

Also:

  • .ci/Jenkinsfile loads ci-demo through the Jenkins global library (@Library('ci-demo'), master on hpcx-01) instead of the stable_hpcx GitHub ref copied from cloudaix.
  • header-check now also excludes Jenkinsfile.*.
  • The webhook trigger's logging keys are fixed. JJB silently dropped the old names.
  • If the merge-commit lookup fails, the run now fails and closes its pending status. Before, it left the status pending forever.

Test Plan

  • jenkins-jobs test --config-xml .ci/proj_jjb.yaml (JJB 6.4.4) renders the CloudAI/CI folder plus 5 jobs.
    • Only cloudai-ci has a webhook trigger (token cloudai-ci).
    • Each leaf's conf_file points at its own matrix.
    • All five share one SCM/refspec block.
  • Rendering this file together with the release job's current JJB gives CloudAI/cloudai-release next to CloudAI/CI/*, with no duplicate projects, templates or tokens.
  • pre-commit run on the changed files passes.
  • The header-check regex excludes .ci/Jenkinsfile and .ci/Jenkinsfile.launcher, and still checks *.py.
  • jenkins-jobs test --config-xml renders the launcher's scriptPath as .ci/Jenkinsfile.launcher, each leaf's as .ci/Jenkinsfile, and each leaf's conf_file as .ci/pipeline/<leaf>_matrix.yaml.
  • An independent review of the full diff (Jenkins/JJB, launcher Groovy, layout, rollout) found the stuck-pending case and the dropped logging keys, both fixed here.
  • Ran on Jenkins (Rollout steps 1-2). The jobs were applied from this commit, then the launcher was run by hand with sha1=refs/pull/1075/merge. The launcher started all four leaves in parallel. Each leaf checked out the merge ref and passed: copyright, secrets, Coverity (0 defects) and coverage. The launcher passed.
  • End to end through Blossom: with CI_SERVER on the launcher's token, /build on this PR started the launcher, which resolved the merge commit and posted every status. In a run with the copyright leaf forced to fail, the copyright leaf went red, the other three leaves green, and blossom-ci green with "CI completed". Temporary commits handled the forced failure and the .python-version workaround (HPCINFRA-4862), and both have been removed.

Rollout

  1. ✅ Jenkins: deleted the old CloudAI/cloudai-ci, renamed the CloudAI/PR folder and its jobs to CloudAI/CI and cloudai-ci* (build history kept), and applied .ci/proj_jjb.yaml from the latest commit.
  2. Set CI_SERVER back to <jenkins-url>@cloudai-ci, then /build on this PR.
  3. Merge promptly: until then /build on other PRs fails, because their merge refs lack .ci/Jenkinsfile.launcher.
  4. Require the four cloudai-ci-<leaf> checks on main (any source).

Refs: HPCINFRA-4889

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The PR replaces a single Jenkins PR job with a launcher and four leaf jobs for copyright, secrets, Coverity, and coverage. It adds per-job pipeline configurations, updates Jenkins job generation, and changes the header checker to exclude suffixed Jenkinsfile names. The lint workflow now selects Python 3.14 directly.

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Jenkins CI job flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure launcher and leaf jobs
.ci/proj_jjb.yaml, .ci/pr/Jenkinsfile.launcher, .ci/README.md
The Jenkins configuration creates the CloudAI/PR folder, a launcher, and four leaf jobs. The guide describes the job structure and steps to add a leaf.
Select commit and dispatch leaf jobs
.ci/pr/Jenkinsfile.launcher, .ci/README.md
The launcher resolves a merged PR commit SHA or uses the manual-run SHA, then starts all leaf jobs in parallel. For PR runs, it sets pending and final commit statuses.
Define leaf check pipelines
.ci/pr/*_matrix.yaml, .ci/header-check.yml, .ci/README.md
The leaf matrices run copyright, coverage, Coverity, and secret checks. The Coverity job fails when defects are reported, and the header checker excludes Jenkinsfile names with suffixes.

Lint Python version selection

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Set the lint Python version
.github/workflows/ci.yml, .python-version
The lint workflow selects Python 3.14 directly. The .python-version file is removed.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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The installation guide no longer specifies the interpreter for local setup. Update it, and confirm the external CI_SERVER and required status context use cloudai-pr during rollout; the checked-in CI flow otherwise appears consistent.

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The PR pipeline ran every check in one Jenkins job. As in NIXL and UCC,
Blossom now triggers a launcher that runs one small job per stage in
parallel. Each leaf posts its own PR status, and the launcher fails if
any leaf fails.

  CloudAI/PR/cloudai-pr              .ci/pr/Jenkinsfile.launcher
  CloudAI/PR/cloudai-pr-copyright    .ci/pr/copyright_matrix.yaml
  CloudAI/PR/cloudai-pr-secrets      .ci/pr/secrets_matrix.yaml
  CloudAI/PR/cloudai-pr-coverity     .ci/pr/coverity_matrix.yaml
  CloudAI/PR/cloudai-pr-coverage     .ci/pr/coverage_matrix.yaml

The release pipeline is moving into this repository too, so each
pipeline gets its own .ci/ directory, CloudAI/ subfolder, job prefix and
JJB project. Stage bodies are unchanged. Leaves reuse .ci/Jenkinsfile.

The launcher's webhook token is cloudai-pr, so the CI_SERVER secret must
move to <jenkins-url>@cloudai-pr. Do that once this is merged.

Also fix the webhook trigger's logging keys, which JJB silently dropped.

Refs: HPCINFRA-4889

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The Blossom workflow sets blossom-ci to pending and nothing closed it,
because the launcher reported under its own cloudai-pr status. Drop the
context so the launcher reports on blossom-ci, as the NIXL dispatcher
does. Leaf jobs keep their cloudai-pr-<leaf> statuses.

Refs: HPCINFRA-4884

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A failed leaf already shows on its own cloudai-pr-<leaf> status. Failing
blossom-ci as well left it stale after re-running just that leaf, since
only the launcher writes it. Start leaves with propagate: false and paint
a failed one's branch red instead, so blossom-ci fails only when
dispatching breaks, as in the NIXL dispatcher.

Refs: HPCINFRA-4884

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Lets keep our conventions there is no. such thing as pr folder ci is pr , you should allign to:
.ci
Dockerfiles
pipeline
x.yaml
y.yaml
scripts
jjb.yaml

Follow the .ci layout the other ci-demo projects use instead of a
per-pipeline directory: the leaf matrices move from .ci/pr/ to
.ci/pipeline/ and the launcher to .ci/Jenkinsfile.launcher. Jenkins job
names, the CloudAI/PR folder and the commit-status contexts are
unchanged; only the script and conf_file defaults in proj_jjb.yaml point
at the new paths.

Refs: HPCINFRA-4889
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The team calls this pipeline CI, not PR: the Jenkins subfolder becomes
CloudAI/CI, the launcher cloudai-ci (webhook token cloudai-ci) and the
leaf jobs and their commit statuses cloudai-ci-<leaf>.

The script parameter only fed script-path and nobody overrides it, so
each job now sets its Jenkinsfile in script-path directly.

Refs: HPCINFRA-4889
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Lets keep our conventions there is no. such thing as pr folder ci is pr , you should allign to:
.ci
Dockerfiles
pipeline
x.yaml
y.yaml
scripts
jjb.yaml

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Use the ci-demo library the Jenkins instance defines instead of pulling
a GitHub ref through pipeline-github-lib. The stable_hpcx ref was copied
from cloudaix. On hpcx-01 the global library resolves to ci-demo@master.

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