René, seeing the Jenkins stuff on build.oorexx.org, I can only say: what
you have done is absolutely amazing!  Thanks!!

Regarding the built images: where would we find those?

Erich

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 7:57 PM, René Jansen <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the past few weeks there have been some improvements in the automatic
> building of Rexx source. There is a Jenkins instance, reachable via
> build.netrexx.org and build.oorexx.org, which coordinates the activity.
> Jenkins is a tool for Continuous Integration, which can run build and test
> jobs, preserve the output and make it visible, and act upon the results. We
> distinguish two types of activity, which is a rebuild of the system
> (netrexx or oorexx) on every commit, on the various platforms, and a
> once-a-day rebuild from scratch, which includes making a distribution
> package and running all tests, and rebuilding the documentation. In the
> near future, we will also keep performance baselines, so we can see if a
> change has regressed these for a specific platform.
>
> In this manner, the “build machine” has become a distributed process in
> which one coordinating image farms out work to build nodes. This is visible
> at the above mentioned locations. At the moment, we have six nodes, which
> all have their own role and can build different parts of our products.
>
> I want to invite you to have a look and to think about whether you, or a
> company you are affiliated to, can contribute to this setup, or not. What
> we need at the moment are (machines that are up and running, and reachable,
> or at least up at a predictable timeframe for us to schedule the jobs). If
> you have such a machine, and can make a separate userid for RexxLA, we can
> schedule building activity on it. At the moment, the most urgent need is
> for the various types of MS-Windows, and the current Linux versions. Dave
> Woodman has come forward to contribute the first Linux with OpenJDK image,
> and we are very thankful for this.
>
> Also, I have setup a push message facility so a committer (and other
> interested parties) can be informed of breaking builds or failing tests, by
> email or phone alerts.
>
> There is enough work to be done. If you want to participate, for example
> by donating machine time, or help to set up the right testing jobs, please
> be in touch. I will follow up with detailed requirements for work to be
> done for different platforms, and I will be revisiting the oorexx.org (and
> netrexx.org) websites to contain the results of the jobs fired off by the
> build machine, so both products will have nightly builds and fresh
> documentation.
>
> We have a small group focusing on building oorexx already, so only
> donating machine time on platforms we need is fine. Send me a private email
> to discuss the details.
>
> best regards,
>
> René Jansen.
>
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