[U-Boot] Notes from the U-Boot BOF Meeting in Geneva 2012/07/12

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

Dear Tom Rini,

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:21:40AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > And Jenkins... well, we have been using this for some time internally
> > to run test builds for U-Boot.  I can tell you a thing or two about
> > it, and Marek has his own story to tell about his experiences when he
> > added to the build matrix.
> > 
> > As is, we try hard to get rid of Jenkins, because it does not scale
> > well to the type of builds we want to be able to do.  Marek even
> > started setting up his own test build framework...
> 
> I told Marek on IRC that I don't understand this, given a lot of the
> things I've made Jenkins do before and that at the end of the day it's
> $whatever-pass/fail-logic

Not really, what about the warning-logic ? Aka. I actually need jenkins to do 
tristate results. How, I didn't figure out.

> on top of a bash script to do the building and
> testing.

So in the end, jenkins is just an executor, bringing in pile of java overhead 
and possible random breakage. I use MAKEALL in my script, which does exactly 
what I need ... and even tests MAKEALL ;-)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut