[Gluster-devel] Automatically building RPMs upon patch submission?

Kaleb S. KEITHLEY kkeithle at redhat.com
Mon May 12 18:21:25 UTC 2014


Then maybe we should run regression tests on check-in. I'm getting tired 
of queuing up regression tests. (And I know I'm not the only one doing it.)

Or run them after they pass the smoke test,

Or....

On 05/12/2014 02:17 PM, Anand Avati wrote:
> It is much better to code review after regression tests pass (premise
> being human eye time is more precious than build server run time)
>
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle at redhat.com
> <mailto:kkeithle at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     <top-post>
>     How about also an auto run of regression at +1 or +2 code review?
>     </top-post>
>
>
>     On 05/12/2014 01:49 PM, Raghavendra G wrote:
>
>         +1 to create RPMs when there is atleast a +1 on code review.
>
>
>         On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com
>         <mailto:ndevos at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:ndevos at redhat.com <mailto:ndevos at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>
>              On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 07:13:14PM +0530, Lalatendu Mohanty
>         wrote:
>               > On 05/02/2014 04:07 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
>               > >Hi all,
>               > >
>               > >at the moment we have some duplicate RPM-building tests
>         running:
>               > >
>               > >1. upon patch submission, next to smoke (compile+posix)
>         tests
>               > >2. rpm.t in the regression tests framework
>               > >
>               > >Both have their own advantages, and both cover a little
>         different
>               > >use-case.
>               > >
>               > >Notes and observations for 1:
>               > >
>               > >   The advantage of (1) is that the built rpm-packages
>         are made
>              available
>               > >   for downloading, and users can test the change easier.
>               > >
>               > >   It is unclear to me how often this is used, many
>         patches need
>              several
>               > >   revisions before they get accepted, each new
>         revision gets new
>               > >   packages build (takes time for each patch
>         submission). I do
>              not know
>               > >   how long these packages are kept, or when they are
>         deleted.
>               > >
>               > >   Building is done for EPEL-6 and Fedora (exact
>         version unclear
>              to me).
>               > >
>               > >
>               > >Notes and observations for 2:
>               > >
>               > >   Building is only done when there are changes related
>         to the
>              packaging.
>               > >   When there are only changes in source code or
>         documentation,
>              there is
>               > >   no need to try and build the rpms (saves ca. 5 minutes).
>               > >
>               > >   The packages are build for EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 only.
>         The resulting
>               > >   packages are deleted automatically and can not be
>         downloaded.
>               > >
>               > >   When writing rpm.t, we decided that building for
>         Fedora was a
>              little
>               > >   dangerous, there are the occasional incompatible changes
>              introduced.
>               > >   We also don't want to bother every developer too
>         much with the
>               > >   packaging.
>               > >
>               > >
>               > >Suggestion for improving the current duplicate package
>         building:
>               > >
>               > >   Building packages takes a lot of resources. It does
>         not seem
>              efficient
>               > >   to me to build packages for two EPEL-6 and Fedora
>         for each patch
>               > >   submission. This takes additional time for a check
>         (smoke.sh)
>              that is
>               > >   tried to keep quick. I also doubt that many of the
>         generated
>              packages
>               > >   are actually used by anyone. Most developers
>         (hopefully) test
>              their
>               > >   changes before submitting the patch(es) to Gerrit.
>               > >
>               > >   There is a definite need to verify that the
>         packaging still
>              works, it
>               > >   helps to catch packaging errors as early as
>         possible. Testing
>              each
>               > >   patch submission might be overkill. Creating
>         packages as part
>              of the
>               > >   regression tests (and make them available) might be
>         too late,
>               > >   regression testing tends to take quite long.
>               > >
>               > >   From my understanding, the only users that are
>         interested in
>              these
>               > >   very early packages, are the QA folks. We definitely
>         want
>              them to test
>               > >   whatever the developers change, so we should
>         accommodate them
>              as much
>               > >   as possible.
>               > >
>               > >   After some discussion, Pranith tossed the idea about
>         building
>              packages
>               > >   when at lease some review of the change has been done. I
>              think this is
>               > >   a great idea! So, I'd like to propose building
>         packages when
>              at least
>               > >   one +1 has been given on a change. Alternatively, it
>         should be
>               > >   possible for the QA people to submit a Jenkins job that
>              builds the
>               > >   packages earlier already. This can then replace both
>         current
>              building
>               > >   jobs.
>               > >
>               > >
>               > >Ideas and further discussions are very much welcome,
>         thanks,
>               > >Niels
>               > >
>               > >Related: http://review.gluster.org/7610
>               >
>               > I am not sure if we have a Jenkins job to create RPM for a
>               > particular change-id. if not, we should have one. Should
>         we also
>               > plan for "deb" (Debian packages)  too? As we have quite
>         a few users
>               > using Debian/Ubuntu distribution.
>
>              Yes, .deb would be a next step, probably followed by NetBSD
>         and OSX.
>
>              Any objections if the current devrpms jobs (upon patch
>         submission) will
>              be removed, and inserted at a +1 Code-Review or +1
>         Verified? Any
>              volunteers that know Jenkins and its Gerrit integration
>         well enough to
>              make this happen?
>
>              I have no idea how to create Jenkins jobs that can create
>         RPMs, probably
>              Luis can help with that.
>
>              Thanks,
>              Niels
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