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

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

Dear Tom Rini,

> On 07/23/2012 10:17 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Tom Rini,
> > 
> >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 03:27:30AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >> 
> >> Yes, you can have the build go "yellow" for warnings.
> > 
> > How?
> 
> Post build stuff and promoted builds.  I'm hopeful once I get a few
> patch series polished up and posted for v2012.11 I can go back and give
> my Jenkins instance some more attention.

But then, do we really need to poke into this now? Maybe we should look more 
into the PW first

> >>>> 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 ;-)
> >> 
> >> Yes, you're writing your own overhead and dealing with bugs in that
> >> rather than using an existing project :)
> > 
> > Well, jenkins just crashed so badly I didn't manage to get it back in a
> > working state, you know ...
> 
> Never had that happen, sorry :)

"Never happened to me" or almost like "Works for me" kind of bloody sentence ;-)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut