[REPORT] Gump Q2 2015

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

Apache Gump is a cross-project continuous integration server.  Gump's
intention isn't so much to be a CI server but rather a vehicle that
makes people look beyond their project's boundaries and helps the
projects to collaborate.

Gump is written in Python and supports several build tools and version
control systems.  The Apache installation of Gump builds ASF as well
as non-ASF projects and their dependencies.  It started in the Java
part of the foundation but also builds projects like APR, HTTPd and
XMLUnit.NET.

== Summary ==

Gump has learned to use msbuild/xbuild and NuGet to build .NET
projects.

Gump seems to create useful results for the few projects that use it.

== Releases ==

Gump has never done any releases.  One reason for this is that the ASF
installations of Gump work on the latest code base almost all of the
time following its "integrate everything continuously" philosophy.

== Activity ==

One of the projects (XMLUnit.NET) built by Gump recently switched to
msbuild/xbuild as its build tool so we had to catch up.  This also
required us to support nuget's command line as a build step.
Currently the support just provides what the project asks for - which
is not the way Gump would be expected to work.  Given the only project
using it doesn't have any dependency on any other project built by
Gump it is unlikely we'll make the implementation more "Gumpy".  With
the move of XMLUnit.NET there no longer is any project using Nant as a
built tool left in the set of projects built by Gump.

As more long running test projects have been added, we needed to
change vmgump's configuration back to perform four runs a day rather
than three. A single run of Gump currently takes about eight and a
half hours. So the setting of "three" in fact meant that we would only
manage two per day.

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