Re: new website (RE: CI and PRs)

2019-08-15 Thread Marco de Abreu
Hi Aaron, wrt the Dockerfile situation. What you are saying is right, but my proposal is the following: Instead of having a fat Dockerfile like --- FROM ubuntu:16 RUN apt update ... --- You instead run that fat Dockerfile locally on your laptop and push it to "aaronmarkham:elephantmaster9000"

Re: new website (RE: CI and PRs)

2019-08-15 Thread Aaron Markham
For stash vs archive, maybe we need to look into attached storage options and combine some deployments, so that artifacts get stored in an accessible way. I notice sometimes the web portal for Jenkins becomes unresponsive. If disk space is causing this, we need to address it. For the Dockerfile

Re: new website (RE: CI and PRs)

2019-08-15 Thread Marco de Abreu
Hi, thanks a lot for these great notes! I'm happy to give my comments about them :) * Archiving is *very VERY* bad for the CI master performance. It floods the disk with data since archiving persists the data. We are now at the point where we technically can't extend the volume any further (we

Re: new website (RE: CI and PRs)

2019-08-15 Thread Aaron Markham
I'll start a different thread about the website. Sure, there's a lot of overlap with CI. I learned a lot in the last few weeks having to iterate on 7 different docs packages and trying to streamline the build process in CI. Here are my notes: * Stash operations vs. archiving - recommendations in