Problems with infrastructure

Ian Wadham iandw.au at gmail.com
Tue Dec 23 09:36:48 GMT 2014


On 23/12/2014, at 8:24 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Jan,
>> 
>> On 22/12/2014, at 12:01 AM, Jan Kundrát wrote:
>>> On Friday, 19 December 2014 22:16:36 CEST, Scarlett Clark wrote:
>>>> Jenkins is compatible and works with Gerrit, so I don't understand why another CI is being considered.
>>> 
>>> Because when I started this effort this spring, build.kde.org appeared to be on life support. I also wanted to expand the number of tools I understand, and make sure that I can evaluate various CI tools without a baggage of having to stick with a particular CI solution "just because we've always done it that way". That's why I started looking at various tools, and the whole stack which the OpenStack infrastructure team have built [1] looked extremely compelling (note: they still use Jenkins).
>>> 
>>> The killer feature for me was their support for testing everything, where each and every commit that is going to land in a repository is checked to make sure it doesn't introduce any regressions. Not on a per-push basis, but on a per-commit basis. This is something which has bitten me in the past where I occasionally introduced commit series which contained occasional breakage in the middle, only to be corrected in a subsequent commit. That was bad because it breaks `git bisect` when one starts looking for errors discovered in future, by unrelated testing.
>> etc.
>> 
>> Well, it's Christmas, the season of goodwill.
>> 
>> So, Jan, how does all this explanation help Scarlett?
>> 
>> Does she have a mentor?  Is anybody helping her?
> 
> Just to answer this point: yes, I am her mentor and are guiding her
> through the matters related to our Jenkins CI system.

Thanks, Ben, I am glad to know she is in good hands… :-)

Merry Christmas,
Ian W.





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