CI, was: Build and distribution modularity

[Jeremy Boynes <jb...@apache.org>]

Splitting into a different thread

On Aug 1, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Ken Tam wrote:
>> Proposal 4: We need a test suite for each distribution that mirrors
>> user experience
>> Rationale: When a user installs a distribution it's helpful if it  
>> works.
>> ...
>> We can't do this every time we build as not everyone will have access
>> to every environment. Instead we use a CI framework such as Continuum
>> that can build or download a distro and exercise it on a variety of
>> platforms. Any failures get converted to high-priority JIRA issues.
>
> Last time I was involved in this sort of thing around Beehive, the ASF
> did not really support any kind of CI infrastructure for its projects.
> Has that changed?  Might we persuade a company or two to pony up a
> machine on the internet?  I really like CI, though most of my
> experience is with cruise control rather than continuum.

I spoke with Dims in the spring about doing nightly builds using the  
zone available to the webservices project and he was OK with it. The  
only issue was that publishing to the snapshot repo required  
someone's private key to be stored on the machine.

Raymond got the build running under Continuum on his desktop so it is  
feasible. We may be able to use some of the GBuild infrastructure  
from Geronimo. I'm willing to open up a dedicated server for folk to  
use as well.

--
Jeremy


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