[Gluster-Maintainers] Moving release job off master

[Shyam]

On 03/22/2017 12:30 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 01:05:09PM +0530, Nigel Babu wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I'd like to move the release job[1] off the master server. This is so that
>> we're more resilient in case of Jenkins failures. I can make the tar file an
>> artifact of the build and linked from the email. Is this an acceptable
>> solution?
>>
>> We're planning on moving the Jenkins server onto a new Centos 7 machine and
>> upgrade to Jenkins 2. Solving this is important to the server move.
>>
>> If there are security concerns around the build, I'm happy to have a specific
>> node where builds are done.
>>
>> Shyam, Kaushal, Niels, and Jiffin - as maintainers of a currently supported
>> release, please chime in. I'll check in with you again if you haven't said
>> anything.
>>
>> Niels and Kaleb - as packagers, please let me know if this change will
>> significantly impact your workflow at release time.
>>
>> Please send in your thoughts by 7th April. I don't yet have a deadline on
>> *when* this will be done. That will be shaped by how much this impacts
>> everyone's workflow.
>
> It really does not matter where the tarball is hosted. As long as the
> emails sent to the packagers list contains the URL and it is archived on
> an additional FTP/HTTP server (not only as a Jenkins artifact).

+1, no worries, as long as it is available and the mail to packagers 
calls it out appropriately, as Niels put it.

>
> Many distributions include packages for Gluster where we are not
> directly involved (Arch, NetBSD, Debian, ...). We need to make sure
> those packagers are informed as well.
>
> HTH,
> Niels
>
>
>>
>> [1]: https://build.gluster.org/job/release/
>>
>> --
>> nigelb
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