Current status of a MacOS build bot

[Jürgen Schmidt <jo...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

there was already a lot of discussion and I believe also some ongoing
work to provide a MacOS build bot. Can anybody tell me what the current
status is? A working and available build bot is somewhat important for
the OpenOffice project to ensure that builds can be done in the future
and don't depend on any private machine.

I am interested to help with setting up a working build environment for
AOO if a Mac machine can be made available as discussed.

Any kind of further information is highly appreciated and welcome.

The same is true for Linux build bots running an older CentOS system
that can be used to support our baseline for OpenOffice. The baseline
ensures that the OpenOffice builds can be installed on as many as
possible Linux versions. Well it would be better to build it from
scratch for any Linux distros but the cooperation here lacks of
volunteers on both sides. It's potentially more a political problem
where I am personally not interested in.

Anyway my goal is to have build bots that can be used at any time to
build a binary release for OpenOffice to fulfill our users need.


Juergen

Re: Current status of a MacOS build bot

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

On 25/08/2014 David Nalley wrote:
> The Mac Mini should get you up and running
> relatively soon. More details once it arrives and OSUOSL brings it
> online.

Thanks a lot, it's quite important for the project to avoid relying on 
machines operated by individual developers.

Juergen, as for the Linux buildbot you can review
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6217
but I think it's safe to assume that it would be quite helpful for Infra 
if someone from the project takes care of providing the VM image...

Regards,
   Andrea.

Re: Current status of a MacOS build bot

[Jürgen Schmidt <jo...@gmail.com>]

On 25/08/14 15:25, David Nalley wrote:
> Hi Juergen:
> 
> Now that we have budget approved (as of Wednesday); we are purchasing
> a Mac Mini Server for AOO to use as a build slave. We've discussed
> bringing some Mac VMs online now that vSphere 5 and OSX licensing
> permits that to run as a VM, but thats likely later in the year as it
> requires a vSphere upgrade. The Mac Mini should get you up and running
> relatively soon. More details once it arrives and OSUOSL brings it
> online.

sounds good, I am busy this week and will be on vacation for 2 weeks
later. I will see where we are after my vacation.

Juergen


> 
> --David
> 
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> there was already a lot of discussion and I believe also some ongoing
>> work to provide a MacOS build bot. Can anybody tell me what the current
>> status is? A working and available build bot is somewhat important for
>> the OpenOffice project to ensure that builds can be done in the future
>> and don't depend on any private machine.
>>
>> I am interested to help with setting up a working build environment for
>> AOO if a Mac machine can be made available as discussed.
>>
>> Any kind of further information is highly appreciated and welcome.
>>
>> The same is true for Linux build bots running an older CentOS system
>> that can be used to support our baseline for OpenOffice. The baseline
>> ensures that the OpenOffice builds can be installed on as many as
>> possible Linux versions. Well it would be better to build it from
>> scratch for any Linux distros but the cooperation here lacks of
>> volunteers on both sides. It's potentially more a political problem
>> where I am personally not interested in.
>>
>> Anyway my goal is to have build bots that can be used at any time to
>> build a binary release for OpenOffice to fulfill our users need.
>>
>>
>> Juergen

Re: Current status of a MacOS build bot

[David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us>]

Hi Juergen:

Now that we have budget approved (as of Wednesday); we are purchasing
a Mac Mini Server for AOO to use as a build slave. We've discussed
bringing some Mac VMs online now that vSphere 5 and OSX licensing
permits that to run as a VM, but thats likely later in the year as it
requires a vSphere upgrade. The Mac Mini should get you up and running
relatively soon. More details once it arrives and OSUOSL brings it
online.

--David

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there was already a lot of discussion and I believe also some ongoing
> work to provide a MacOS build bot. Can anybody tell me what the current
> status is? A working and available build bot is somewhat important for
> the OpenOffice project to ensure that builds can be done in the future
> and don't depend on any private machine.
>
> I am interested to help with setting up a working build environment for
> AOO if a Mac machine can be made available as discussed.
>
> Any kind of further information is highly appreciated and welcome.
>
> The same is true for Linux build bots running an older CentOS system
> that can be used to support our baseline for OpenOffice. The baseline
> ensures that the OpenOffice builds can be installed on as many as
> possible Linux versions. Well it would be better to build it from
> scratch for any Linux distros but the cooperation here lacks of
> volunteers on both sides. It's potentially more a political problem
> where I am personally not interested in.
>
> Anyway my goal is to have build bots that can be used at any time to
> build a binary release for OpenOffice to fulfill our users need.
>
>
> Juergen

Re: Current status of a MacOS build bot

[David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there was already a lot of discussion and I believe also some ongoing
> work to provide a MacOS build bot. Can anybody tell me what the current
> status is? A working and available build bot is somewhat important for
> the OpenOffice project to ensure that builds can be done in the future
> and don't depend on any private machine.
>
> I am interested to help with setting up a working build environment for
> AOO if a Mac machine can be made available as discussed.
>
> Any kind of further information is highly appreciated and welcome.
>
> The same is true for Linux build bots running an older CentOS system
> that can be used to support our baseline for OpenOffice. The baseline
> ensures that the OpenOffice builds can be installed on as many as
> possible Linux versions. Well it would be better to build it from
> scratch for any Linux distros but the cooperation here lacks of
> volunteers on both sides. It's potentially more a political problem
> where I am personally not interested in.
>

On the Linux buildbot front, it might make sense to see if that is something
we can spin up on demand - please look at the work done with Packer.
If we can use that to create a base image (plus the puppet manifests
to get it into a state you need) we could keep an image available to
deploy on demand for CentOS. Even if we have to keep a VM around all
the time, it likely makes sense for us to configure it with
Packer+Puppet.

https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tools/packer/

--David