On 4 May 2012 13:18, Michael Hudson-Doyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi gang, > > As you may have seen if you actually read all the merge proposal email > you get <wink>, as part of my quest to get us closer to a continuous > delivery stype of development I've written a script that updates a LAVA > instance to the tip of trunk of all the various LAVA components. I will > set things up so that this runs every night on the staging instance > soon (need to fiddle things somehow so that a sudo password isn't > necessary to restart the instance after the code is upgraded). > > However, Spring is right now using the staging instance to test some > dispatcher changes. If I'd set the cronjob I refer to above up and > Spring was particularly unlucky, the cronjob would wipe out the changes > he's made to the instance to test while he's testing them. This seems > less than ideal. > > Because what we do is always going to be hard to test outside a > production like environment, I think what we need is yet another > instance: one that we can hack about relentlessly as needed to test > changes that we haven't yet landed. I propose the name "dogfood" for > this (maybe we'd even go as far as having scripts that completely > removed the dogfood instance and could recreate it as needed to ensure a > clean baseline). > > So we'd have: > > * production: duh > * staging: this is _solely_ used to determine if changes that have > landed to the trunk of some component are safe to deploy to > production > * dogfood: random hacking > > I think that potentially we could have some way of bringing up dogfood > instances as needed in our private cloud, but tbh for now one on control > that we share amongst ourselves in a loose way (i.e. check on IRC before > doing stuff with it) would be a useful thing. > > What do you guys think? > Usually we don't need such kind of instance, staging is enough. But for the proxy case, it's an global configuration to lava-dispatcher and validation farm server, which needs some debug during the testing, it happens in real server. Yes I think dogfood is necessary though the usage would not be very frequent. > > Cheers, > mwh > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-validation mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-validation > -- Best wishes, Spring Zhang
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