Hi Marco, Thanks for your work on the CI.
Is it possible/ok to share the docs via googledocs link until you get write permissions for the apache wiki page? Bhavin Thaker. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Marco de Abreu <marco.g.ab...@googlemail.com > wrote: > Hello MXNet community, > > as discussed in > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/bb0f63cd6dbab9cf7e5f857f60b758 > a774a76876b8135ec9cf67a57c@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E > and tracked at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MXNET-1, we've > decided > to switch to a new CI running Jenkins and move away from the current setup > running under builds.apache.org. Within the past weeks, me and my team > have > been working on setting up the new CI. > > We've reached a state which is, besides a few structural changes described > in https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/8960, compatible to the > MXNet repository. I'd like to make the transition within the next days and > thus request a review on my PR. > > I would like to point out, that at this stage, we're only migrating to the > new CI. This means we're in control of the master, can start and stop > slaves as desired, don't rely on Apache Infra-tickets and thus increase > stability and reaction time. Just to set some expectations: During my tests > I've noticed seg-faults, flaky tests and other irregular build failures > like they're already happening on the current CI setup. These are not > related to the CI itself, but we're going to look into these issues after > the initial migration has been completed. While the new CI is running, > we'll work on implementing reactive auto scaling to avoid any queue times. > > I would appreciate some feedback and I'd like to hear if there's anything > you'd like to have in the new CI. Additionally, I've created a few design > documents regarding auto scaling and security design, but unfortunately, > I'm not able to share them yet due to permission issues on the MXNet wiki. > As soon as they're available, I'll send a follow-up email. > > Looking forward to your feedback. > > Best regards, > Marco >
