[U-Boot] Notes from the U-Boot BOF Meeting in Geneva 2012/07/12

[Tom Rini]

On 07/23/2012 11:11 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Tom Rini,
> 
>> On 07/23/2012 10:17 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> Dear Tom Rini,
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 03:27:30AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>> Dear Tom Rini,
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:21:40AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And Jenkins... well, we have been using this for some time internally
>>>>>>> to run test builds for U-Boot.  I can tell you a thing or two about
>>>>>>> it, and Marek has his own story to tell about his experiences when he
>>>>>>> added to the build matrix.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As is, we try hard to get rid of Jenkins, because it does not scale
>>>>>>> well to the type of builds we want to be able to do.  Marek even
>>>>>>> started setting up his own test build framework...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I told Marek on IRC that I don't understand this, given a lot of the
>>>>>> things I've made Jenkins do before and that at the end of the day it's
>>>>>> $whatever-pass/fail-logic
>>>>>
>>>>> Not really, what about the warning-logic ? Aka. I actually need jenkins
>>>>> to do tristate results. How, I didn't figure out.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, you can have the build go "yellow" for warnings.
>>>
>>> How?
>>
>> Post build stuff and promoted builds.  I'm hopeful once I get a few
>> patch series polished up and posted for v2012.11 I can go back and give
>> my Jenkins instance some more attention.
> 
> But then, do we really need to poke into this now? Maybe we should look more 
> into the PW first

Me or the community?  I'm going to poke Jenkins regardless since it's
something I've got setup already (and I've contributed a few changes and
a plugin, in a past life).  Is it the right answer for the community?
TBD :)  Is it the first thing we should address?  No, the patch
collection / management problem should indeed come first.

-- 
Tom