On Dec 20, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Edy, > > On Dec 19, 2012, at 6:29 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> Well, the subject pretty much sums it up. I am proposing to skip any >> testing while building a release, since that is the job of the CI >> infrastructure and, it happened more than once for the build of the release >> to fail because of a flickering test. This is really annoying for a release >> manager that has to start over the entire build (since right now it's a >> real pain to alter the scripts to continue the build). >> >> Besides this, tests (specially the functional ones added into platform) >> uselessly delay the build, thus, the release. >> >> Note: We are already skipping tests for enterprise and manager. This vote >> is actually about skipping tests for commons, rendering and platform as >> well. > > The build that is released should always have had all tests passed on it so > Im' not a bit fan of this option. That said, a few weeks ago, I modified our release script to skip tests for platform :) > A better way is to do build promotion, i.e. release from jenkins. There are > various jenkins plugin for this. > > The way I view it is like this: > * once a day we run the release job (starting after RC is released usually), > which will build the whole stack (from commons to functional tests) using the > target version and we push it to a staging repo on nexus > * this release job can also be triggered manually > * we start to only release like this and we thus always release with a > perfectly passing build > * as soon as there is a promoted build during sorin and manuel could do some > smoke testing on it and we can advertise the build on our lists and give it > 2-3 days before we move from staging to target repo. > > I don't think this is hard to set up and I could work on this after I finish > with false positives emails. I really think we should work on this. I'll try to find some time; it would save us a lot of time. We should probably use https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Promoted+Builds+Plugin Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
