# Documentation about reading and understanding CI results

**URL:** <https://discourse.vtk.org/t/documentation-about-reading-and-understanding-ci-results/8736>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [June 15, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/documentation-about-reading-and-understanding-ci-results/8736 "2022-06-15T13:00:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/mwestphal/32/19_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/documentation-about-reading-and-understanding-ci-results/8736/1 "2022-06-15T13:00:00Z")

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A complete documentation about reading and understanding VTK GitLab CI and CDash results has just been merged in VTK.

You may want to take a look !

[https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/blob/master/Documentation/dev/git/develop.md#reading-ci-results](https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/blob/master/Documentation/dev/git/develop.md#reading-ci-results)

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**Author:** ![seanm](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@seanm](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/seanm)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/documentation-about-reading-and-understanding-ci-results/8736/2 "2022-06-23T18:38:30Z")

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A nice addition. One thought:

> Timeouts: please rerun the job and report to CI maintainers

Who are they? How are they contacted?

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**Author:** ![mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/mwestphal/32/19_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/documentation-about-reading-and-understanding-ci-results/8736/3 "2022-06-24T14:39:46Z")

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Just above:

```auto
If you have any question about the CI process, do not hesitate to ask a CI maintainer:

    @ben.boeckel
    @mathieu.westphal

```