It's another master but with smaller capacity. Its sole purpose is to test updates and new features before use them in production.
2012/7/6 Linards Liepiņš <[email protected]> > Specify the term "Jenkins instance". Is it seperate process on seperate > machine? Or is it Slave? > > If it is slave, then you could use something similar to Publisher plugin. > > If it is other instance on other machine, I would not recommend such > activities as the result of any connection interruption withing you build > infrastructure most likely will cost you a lot of valueable time of your > release monekys :) > > > 2012/7/6 Michaël Pailloncy <[email protected]> > >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> The goal of the plugin is to maintain Jobs configurations between a >> Jenkins instance in 'production' and another one in 'pre-production'. The >> goal of the 'pre-production' is to test upgrade of Jenkins and its plugins >> before apply updates to 'production' environnent. >> >> My first idea is not to implement version control support. I would like >> to compare file line by line and merge part of them if, for example, the >> job in pre-production has been modified because of a regression during >> testing. This plugin will allow me to apply some modifications directly >> without repeating manual actions in the production environment, which can >> be source of problems >> >> I hope to be sufficiently clear. >> >> >> 2012/7/6 Linards Liepiņš <[email protected]> >> >>> And you want it to implement w/o version control support? Merging >>> differences mainly stands within VCS, but the plugin you mention simply >>> compares file line by line... >>> >>> Of course - It would be pretty interesting to have such feature, based >>> upon some exported vcs function or importable one ... >>> >>> >>> 2012/7/6 mpapo - Michaël Pailloncy <[email protected]> >>> >>>> Hi, I would like to create a plugin that can compare two jobs on >>>> differents Jenkins instances and allows to merge parts of the configuration >>>> XML file. >>>> >>>> I've seen that plugin >>>> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/JobConfigHistory+Plugin has >>>> a component to display differences between two jobs configuration. >>>> My first idea would be to improve this component to merge parts of the >>>> config file. >>>> >>>> Do you know if a component like this already exists ? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> A.C. Linards L. >>> >> >> > > > -- > A.C. Linards L. >
