Re: Jenkins job for per-repository CI

From: Matt Barth <msbarth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Andrew Geissler <geissonator@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Jenkins job for per-repository CI
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:39:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5eaf3cc0-2da9-dbeb-b641-92436b647b1d@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACPK8Xd10-XSAsqBGhyaKQYfA0YLNZ00qFuW_ocASkXZA=qd_Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hey Joel,

On 11/20/2016 06:47 PM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> You need to set your username in Thunderbird. I also recommend not top
> posting and disabling HTML mail when sending to mailing lists.
>
Thanks for the pointers, think I fixed things on this now.
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Andrew Geissler <geissonator@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Matt Barth is working a story to use his new auto tools capabilities
>> in each of our repo's to do "make check" calls when code is committed.
>
> Cool! I assume make check will be used by developers on the local
> machines too. I think it's important that our development process is
> as frictionaless as possible. To that end, someone should be able to
> git clone && autoreconf && ./configure && make check wherever
> possible.
>
Correct, this should be able to be done by developers on local machines 
within a x86_64(most likely) SDK or without a SDK if all the 
dependencies are met.
> This is harder for projects that have cross-project dependencies. How
> are you handling these cases?
>
At this time, the dependencies will be up to the developer when 
attempting to run locally(SDK or not). There's likely some work still to 
be done here where ./configure should report any missing dependencies 
for the developer to correct.
On the Jenkins automation side, I'm working on a script to parse 
configure.ac in determining what dependencies need to be installed 
within the docker image prior to running the unit tests. This is a work 
in progress at the moment and will possibly cause updates to each repo's 
configure.ac file to better define the dependencies.
> Do you have any code for us to look at?
>
There's a couple commits in gerrit for the Jenkin's scripts to build and 
run the docker image and I'm working on the script that runs within the 
docker image to determine these dependencies now.
https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/1103/
https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/1230/
> Cheers,
>
> Joel
>
Matt