On Tuesday 16 August 2011, Torgny Nyblom wrote: > On Monday 15 August 2011 23.31.26 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > [...] > > > ----------------------------------------- > > 8) Testing > > ----------------------------------------- > > > > We shortly discussed testing, continuous builds and nightly builds. > > I hope Volker (or somebody) can write a better summary. > > Volker has a prototype for easily running VM-based builds on > > Linux-machines, which contribute their results to a cdash dashboard. > > Marcus introduced us to cdash@home, which has a similar purpose, i.e. > > make it very easy for people to contribute their machine as a > > continuous-build host to a project. > > It seems there is growing interest in establishing structured testing for > > KDE, also highlighted by Till's talk "The limits of portability". > > More details to come... > > Don't forget that there is a trial up and running on http://build.kde.org > > This is a Jenkins installation that is currently triggered by the commit > hooks and do continious build + test of kdelibs (KDE/4.7), kde-runtime > (master), kdepimlibs (master), kdepim (master) and kdepim-runtime > (master). > > The plan is to expand this to all (former) modules and atleast the stable > and master branches. > > Any feedback regarding this site would be appreciated.
There are currently several parties interested in running builds/test. There is you working on Jenkins, Volker is working on setting up virtual machines so users can do builds in a seti@home style, and Marcus is trying to see how cdash@home could fit for KDE. It would be good to coordinate the plans of the different people in some way. Should we do this on kde-buildsystem or somewhere else ? Do we want to set up machines which build everythings regularly ? Or do we want to find users interested in specific applications or libs setting up builds just for this one part ? How do we want to deal with covering different build options ? And how about the different operating systems we support ? Do we care more about fast turn around times for continuous builds and targeted email notifications (so I get an email really fast if I broke something), or are we more interested in getting complete builds done from time to time ? Alex
