[OpenAFS-devel] hudson success (i.e. automatically building)

[Jason Edgecombe]

Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> On 13 Jul 2010, at 00:43, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
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>> First, I'd like to apologize for posting broken URL's into gerrit, but on a good note, I have the hudson continuous integration server <http://hudson-ci.org/> working!
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> That's great - thanks!
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>> Currently, I have two jobs set up. One just builds the openafs git repo after each commit. The other integrates with gerrit, builds a change, and verifies each new change.
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>> The hudson machine is running Debian Lenny on i386 and building with the command "sh regen.sh && ./configure && make"
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> You probably want to verify with --enable-checking (we expect all new code to pass the gcc warnings test). I'm not sure how you're doing the git checkout, but if you aren't cloning a new git repository each time, you probably want to do a "git clean" before running regen.sh (our dependency information is pretty broken)
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>> There are a few of caveats:
>> 1. I haven't seen a gerrit build failure, so I'm not convinced that it's really working yet.
>> 2. It builds all changes, regardless of the author or approvers.
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> There are obviously risks here that we'd want to consider before moving this onto any OpenAFS machines.
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>> 3. This is running in a VirtualBox VM on my personal laptop.
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>> So, now I will ask, "What now?"
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> I think the major question now is to what extent Hudson will support doing distributed builds. Ideally we'd be able to farm a build job out to a community contributed set of buildhosts, so we can get wide pre-commit coverage. Given that this is likely to involve building for at least 5 platforms, and potentially multiple versions/configurations on each architecture, we really want something that will aggregate commit results into a single "Verified" message. I know that buildbot will do this for us, can Hudson?
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> In the short term, it would be really good if the verified message could indicate the options the build was performed with, and the platform that the build occurred on.
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Thanks!

hudson does support distributed builds, but I vaguely recall reading
that the slaves can to bad things to the master.

I tried changing the gerrit verified message, but it wouldn't save my
changes :(

Is there a private or test gerrit instance I can use, or should I
continue to use the public one?

Jason