[Kde-games-devel] How to handle Jenkins?

[Frederik Schwarzer]

Am Montag, 14. März 2016, 21:19:31 schrieb Julian:

Hi,

> as I am feeling more responsible for KBlocks, I started looking at
> Jenkin's build errors. I felt particularly bad when I thought my
> last change has broken the build [1]. However, I noticed that it
> failed when CMake could not locate KF5XmlGui which is completely
> unrelated to my changes.
> 
> But I was wondering: Is it my responsibility to make sure that
> XmlGui is still supported? Is there a method to trigger a new build
> (besides pushing new changes to the repository)? Are there Jenkins
> errors you can safely ignore? I would appreciate to hear your
> thoughts on that.

My thoughts on that are that Jenkins is currently too noisy to be 
useful. After around 5 failures that were caused by Jenkins not being 
able to create its own build directory, I stopped caring for build 
failure notices. If it builds on my machine, it's most likely a enkins 
failure.
If there is no successful build after a few days, however, I look at 
the build failure.

As far as I know, some people can reinitiate a build by hand. I do not 
like the practice of pushing something to the repo just to do that.

Just my opinion, not really helping. :)

Rgards,
Frederik