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

[Marek Vasut]

Dear 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.

Just what I had in mind :)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut