[ckan-discuss] buildbot success in Open Knowledge Foundation on buildbot-test

Thu Mar 18 21:59:06 GMT 2010

John,

GREAT work getting the automatic build going! This is most useful for all of us.

David

On 18 March 2010 21:28, John Bywater
<john.bywater at appropriatesoftware.net> wrote:
> John Bywater wrote:
>>>
>>> Good work. By the way how does one get the ckan only set of results
>>> (for the case where we're testing code other than ckan in the buildbot
>>> at some future point ...).
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure, but I would try creating a build master per project
>> (roughly: projects => build masters; platforms => build slaves).
>>
>
> A simpler approach would be to stick with one build master and add a step
> for each project. It would be like the steps in build 4, but with
> ckan-buildandsmoke.py, licenses-buildandsmoke.py,
> ckanclient-buildandsmoke.py, and so on, instead of those trivial shell
> scripts.
>
> http://buildbot.okfn.org/builders/buildbot-test/builds/4
>
> If one steps fails, the other steps are still run, but the overall build
> result result will be a red bar. That's how the Appropriate Software
> Foundation build bot works (each step runs one part of the foundation test
> suite, which composes all system and service tests into a single test
> suite).
>
> http://kforge.appropriatesoftware.net/foundation/svn/trunk/src/foundation/
>
> But then you can't trigger building just one thing. Hence the suggestion to
> have several build masters.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> John.
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