Re: OE stable, testing, dev (was Re: What to do about the poor bitbake Quality Control?)

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 08/21/2010 12:26 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2010/8/18 Cliff Brake<cliff.brake@gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Martyn Welch<martyn.welch@ge.com>  wrote:
>>> On 17/08/10 16:02, Cliff Brake wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think it would be very useful to have a "stable" branch that is only
>>>> synchronised with dev when X number of targets build from a clean
>>>> build.  It seems like this would be high value, with little effort.
>>>> Of course there will be corner things that break, but at least a new
>>>> beagleboard user can check out something and have reasonable
>>>> confidence that it will build images.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have suggestions for the branch name and a reasonable
>>>> subset of machines and build targets?  Perhaps someone is already
>>>> running these clean builds?  At one point we had a machine at OSUOSL
>>>> dedicated to this purpose, but no one ever set it up.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So something like Debian's stable, testing and unstable[1]?
>>
>> That sounds good to me -- so how about org.openembedded.dev and
>> org.openembedded.testing branches?
>
> Good plan!
>
>>
>> I'll plan to start doing a clean build of dev every Monday for the
>> Beagleboard, and then merge to testing once it builds.  Initial
>> targets:
>
> Cool!
>>
>> Angstrom Distro
>> beagleboard/beagleboard-linuxtag2010-demo-image
>> x86/minimal-image
>
> It would be nice to have some additional distro's (e.g. minimal, shr)
> and machines (what would be a good coverage here) tested before it is
> pushed
>>
>> My workstation runs a 64-bit OS, so that is probably worst case
>> (compared to i686).
>>
> What OS? If you want to make things really nasty go to RHEL4 (but I
> think most people would be fine with e.g. ubuntu 10.04)
> Ideally you'd do this in a clean vm to make sure that there is no
> dependency on whatever happens to be installed on your workstation for
> other purposes.

Perhaps share this load?  I'd volunteer to make some tests using
my Fedora servers.

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