On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:47 AM, James Turnbull wrote:
> Paul Nasrat wrote:
>> It'd be nice to have a post 0.25.x push to try make the tests less
>> brittle. I know there are some oddities in ordering but I've tracked
>
> I think we could possibly do a couple of pre-0.25.x pushes to tests
> alone - I am seeing that Markus is a far way down the path of tracking
> down some of the issues - Markus?
>
>> those down by bisection before, it may be possible. Also getting the
>> hudson builds to run on each push would be great to spot integration
>> issues early. I guess this means moving it off James' credit card :)
>
> That's mostly been my and Luke's business with other stuff. I don't
> mind the cost too much - it's not huge for test runs - although
> correct
> it might wear on me after a while.
Working on it.
>
> The other issue is how long they currently take - to run up the test
> hosts and execute the tests can take up to an hour because we're using
> small/medium AMIs and they need to be built up a lot. Building our own
> AMIs with an existing build/test configuration will significantly
> reduce
> this obviously - again something I don't have time for but RL might?
> Perhaps Larry or Teyo - though I know they are both busy too. Luke?
At this point I'd rather wait that time than spend the timing building
AMIs, but in a month or two hopefully that will change.
>
> Barring this I also still need to make the scripts more resilient -
> hell
> they are awfully crude now - and I am sure that Larry or someone who
> does a lot more unattended builds with EC2 than me could do a much
> better job of them. They provide the basic make-up though and could
> easily be adapted into Rake or Rubigen to make them more "standard"
> and
> Puppet-like.
>
> The irony obviously is that installing and building the test hosts
> with
> Puppet seems to have bleed-through to the tests in the check-out and
> stuff on the local host gets in the way. I am not savvy enough to
> work
> out why the local /usr/lib contents are getting pulled in either. :)
There's a reason why I almost named it quine. :)
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