[OpenAFS-devel] Re: adding "make check" to build slaves

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 04/09/2012 09:05 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>> At the moment, the debian-i386 and freebsd82-amd64 builders are
>> running "make check" with warnings instead of failing.
> What good is it going to do if no one knows to look?
> Or if they always fail and therefore no one pays attention.
> Until there is a stable set of tests that are known to consistently
> succeed and which will not deadlock the build slaves if they fail
> in just the right way?
>
>> We already have multiple pools of builders, which aren't mutually
>> exclusive. We have two main pools: the gerrit-triggered pool
>> (debian-i386, freebsd82-amd64,opensuse-x86_64, win2008 builders), and
>> the scheduled builders (the rest). Some branches only build on certain
>> builders.
> The only builders that get regular attention are the ones that break
> the verification of patchsets in gerrit.   All of the others are
> ignored.  To fix that
> part, failing builders that are not gerrit triggered should send an
> e-mail.
> Perhaps to openafs-devel.
>
>> We can split the builders and slaves however we like. The main issue
>> is that it would be nice to run "make check" on as many platforms as
>> possible, but we need more slaves, possibly double, if we want the
>> same platform coverage and a completely isolated testing pool.
> You do not need more slaves.  You just need to configure the slaves
> differently.
> All of the Windows builders are the same machine.  The builders just
> need to be
> configured to offer additional build configurations.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
>
ok, "make check" is now removed from all builders.

I'll have to research how to have builds send email without sending too 
many emails.

Should the email(s) go to openafs-devel or somewhere else?

I'm open to any suggestions. I'm just trying to keep most people happy.

Jason