Re: Daily Xen Builds

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Ian Pratt wrote:

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>>Is it perhaps wise, nearing 3.0, that we adopt a policy of 
>>running the various test suites on code before it gets pushed 
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>>This seems like requiring passing on xm-test a sane thing to 
>>do for the tools related changes.  Is there anything that 
>>needs to be done to the test suites to make this less painful 
>>for the committers?
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>We've been working towards getting XenRT integrated in our changeset
>release system, and are hoping to go live in the next couple of days.
>It's a shame we didn't have it for yesterday's hickup, but too bad.
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>Every check-in will automatically trigger a run of the XenRT 'fast' test
>suite. This will result in it being built, booted, and undergoing
>various tests (including xm-test). Only changesets that pass on all of
>x86_32, x86_32p and x86_64 will be pushed out from the staging area to
>the public xenbits.xensource.com repository. The fast test suite takes
>about one hour to run.
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Excellent!  Thanks Ian.

Let us know if there's anything we can do to help speed this along.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>This should put an end to changesets that have obvious faults escaping
>into the wild. 
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>The longer XenRT test suites will still be run on every nightly snapshot
>(and reported to xenbits.xensource.com/xenrt)
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>Best,
>Ian
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