I was talking to my friend at CloudBees recently and he mentioned that there's a way to configure build slave machines. These are aws instances that can be fired up to handle platform-specific builds. Apparently, aws has a free program that you can use for this.
The reason I mention this is that Java has a tool called the Packager which can be configured (via its maven plugin) to do platform-specific, native builds. It packages your app plus the version of Java needed by your app. This would solve one of the most common desktop installation problems that users report. The version of packager currently being worked on for Java 9 is jigsawed, which means that you can narrow down the size of the jre to just the minimum required for your app. Mark Hi Linus, Sounds good. Recently I tried downloading and installing argouml and running it on a Mac. It prompted me to download and install Java 6, rather than use the Java 8 that I currently have installed. This problem has been around a while and his been reported by others, and is common on other Java-based programs. It would be nice if the build were updated to fix this problem. Cheers, Mark On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Linus Tolke Tigris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Mark! > > This looks great. It looks like there is no Gerrit service in the offer > but we can start without that. I will do the sign-up and then attempt to > set up the maven builds. > > Linus > Den 24 sep 2015 02:19 skrev "Mark Fortner" <[email protected]>: > >> Linus, >> I have a friend who works at CloudBees. He said that as an open source >> project all we need to do is apply here: >> https://www.cloudbees.com/resources/foss/sign-up >> Once the account is setup, then you point the jenkins server at a code >> repo, and setup a build schedule. If you need help, let me know and I'll >> forward you his contact details off-list. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Mark >> >> >> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Christian Heinrich < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Linus, >>> >>> yes, travis-ci is a different framework; and it only works with GitHub, >>> IIRC. You configure it by adding a travis-ci.yml file, I think, and then >>> you tell travis what your repository is called. >>> >>> Personally, I have no experience with travis-ci, as we also use Jenkins >>> for our research project. >>> >>> So, having said that, I think sticking with Jenkins is the best choice >>> overall as there isn't really anyone here who knows travis-ci. >>> >>> Now, as codebetter is still serving 503's, I think we should go with >>> cloudbees.com. On the other hand, if we're going to use JIRA as a >>> bugtracker, we also might check if bamboo (Atlassians continuous >>> integration service) is available for free and if it's sufficient for >>> us. >>> >>> Best regards >>> Christian >>> >>> On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 14:44 +0200, Linus Tolke Tigris wrote: >>> > Hi Christian! >>> > >>> > >>> > After looking a little closer I get the feeling that travis-ci.org is >>> > not a site running Jenkins but something else. That would make the >>> > migration work even bigger than I thought it would be. >>> > >>> > >>> > What are your experiences around running this? Are they for >>> > maven-based builds? >>> > >>> > >>> > How about findbugs and checkstyle, do they run in travis-ci.org from >>> > within the maven-based builds with nice reports? Do travis-ci.org >>> > provide a repository for maven snapshots? >>> > >>> > >>> > /Linus >>> > >>> > >>> > 2015-05-21 15:04 GMT+02:00 Christian Heinrich >>> > <[email protected]>: >>> > Hi! >>> > >>> > Any decision made regarding this? >>> > >>> > There is also travis-ci.org, but I think it requires a GitHub >>> > account. >>> > (Any specific reason for not moving to GitHub? It might be >>> > interesting >>> > to use this huge platform for collaboration) >>> > >>> > Best regards >>> > Christian >>> > >>> > On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 01:15 +0100, Linus Tolke Tigris wrote: >>> > > Hi! >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > Looks like there are two alternatives. Cloudbees as the big >>> > company >>> > > and Codebetter as a smaller one. Anyone with experience from >>> > any of >>> > > them? >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > /Linus >>> > > >>> > > 2015-02-25 12:23 GMT+01:00 Bob Tarling >>> > <[email protected]>: >>> > > More specifically for open source - >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6958286/free-build-server-service-for-opensource-projects >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > On 25 February 2015 at 00:06, Mark Fortner >>> > > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > > Hi Linus, >>> > > Here are some >>> > > ideas: >>> > >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10012397/are-there-any-reputable-hosted-cloud-based-jenkins-services-available >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > Cheers, >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > Mark >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Linus Tolke >>> > Tigris >>> > > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > > Hello all! >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > A few weeks ago my cheapo PC running >>> > Jenkins >>> > > and Gerrit for argouml stopped being >>> > bootable. >>> > > It wasn't really unexpected for me >>> > since it >>> > > has had regular disk errors for a >>> > year or so. >>> > > Alas, this means that we no longer >>> > have any >>> > > Jenkins server doing builds so no >>> > updated >>> > > snapshots will be created for the >>> > maven builds >>> > > and there is no gerrit server. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > I don't think it is a good idea >>> > getting the >>> > > computer to work again. It is old >>> > (Pentium4, >>> > > 2.6GHz). >>> > > >>> > > What shall we do? Are there any >>> > build services >>> > > available for open source projects >>> > that we >>> > > could use? Should we by commercial >>> > services >>> > > for this? Could someone volunteer >>> > some server >>> > > capacity for this? >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > /Linus >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > ------------------------------------------------------ >>> > >>> http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=450&dsMessageId=3118537 >>> > >>> > To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: >>> > [[email protected]]. >>> > To be allowed to post to the list contact the mailing list >>> > moderator, email: [[email protected]] >>> > >>> > >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=450&dsMessageId=3119177 >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [ >>> [email protected]]. >>> To be allowed to post to the list contact the mailing list moderator, >>> email: [[email protected]] >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------ http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=450&dsMessageId=3139657 To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [[email protected]]. 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