This is really good news! I really like that INRIA pays attention to issues we having and takes into account our experience and input. This is, of course, what anyone would expect from any reasonable organization :)
On 7 November 2012 17:02, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We are experiencing some stability issues with > https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/ > > But the good news is: people here have been busy, and there will be a > completely new > ci infrastructure soon. > > https://ci.inria.fr > > This is right now in Beta, so please do not yet request accounts without > checking with > us first (and in general, it makes only sense to have an account if you need > to do > something like changing the configuration, not for normal use like downloads > or checking > the status of a build). > > This setup is for inria-wide deployment, and inria is a bit larger then > RMoD... there > are over 170 teams, >4500 employees... so this installation needs to be > tested well before > it can be rolled out. > > The good news is that RMoD (and thus Pharo) is part of the beta test! > > TimeLine > ------------- > > -> Beta test started 31/10 > -> We will recreate the whole setup of the old jenkins there for > testing > (possibly simplified using the new command line options) > -> The installation will go in production in January > > > What will it give us? > ----------------------------- > > -> We can create whole Jenkis setups by pressing a button. > (e.g. we will create a private RMoD ci server for internal > things, > we could think about splitting the VM builds into it's own > Jenkins, or > a jenkins for every version of Pharo...) > -> Slaves can be created easily (uses CloudStack behind) > -> external guest users can connect to the slaves via SSH (or remote > Desktop for Win) > -> much better infrastructure and support > -> *Much* more resources. Disk size for Slaves, space for keeping > artefacts > > > So, the ci infrastructure of Pharo will see a very boost soon. > > Marcus > > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
