Re: Master Stability

[Joshua Lock <josh@openedhand.com>]

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:54 -0800, Scott Garman wrote:
> On 12/07/2010 10:43 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 09:44 -0800, Elizabeth Flanagan wrote:
> >> Acked-by: Beth Flanagan
> >>
> >> (Stands on build engineer soap box)
> >>
> >> If at all possible, when you try to verify a fix, do a full clean build
> >> for more than just one arch using BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL_MAKE.
> >> With the number of pull requests coming through, it becomes more and
> >> more vital to verify patches prior to sending them out.
> >>
> >> Preferably, I'd like to start seeing people add something like a
> >> Verified-with:<build target>  tag to pull requests, so we can at least
> >> identify pulls that need more peer review than normal.
> >
> > Personally I'd like to see links to an autobuilder report showing it has
> > succeeded and if such a tag is *not* on a pull request it's
> > automatically pushed to an autobuilder instance with the success of the
> > build sent back to the list as a reply to the patch thread.
> >
> > I think hardware constraints make this a bit of a pipe dream though?
> 
> We're definitely hardware constrained for it. I want a pony also. ;)

I've become increasingly jealous because some colleagues have a unicorn!
It's called git test-sequence:
http://dustin.github.com/2010/03/28/git-test-sequence.html

> 
> Beth has started working on customizing Buildbot's web interface to 
> allow finer-grained control over what gets built. A longer-range goal of 
> this is eventually be able to pick which targets and architectures get 
> built from a custom autobuilder buildset. That way someone with a commit 
> to quilt (which has very few dependencies) wouldn't have to build all of 
> poky-image-sato to demonstrate their build works. With something like 
> that in place, we can start to consider having individual developers 
> test their changes on our autobuilder infrastructure. Which would kick ass.

No kidding, can't wait!

Hopefully we can tie something like git test-sequence into this such
that we can do these things from our lovely shell environments :-)

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre