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Re: [mylyn-reviews-dev] Nightly build job configuration enhancements

I've changed the job to perform a scratch build only once a day (and
normally this should be the nightly build because it's executed 15
minutes after midnight). Is this configuration ok for everyone?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Steffen Pingel
<steffen.pingel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Sascha Scholz <sascha.scholz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I configured the build job to run from scratch (takes about 15min,
>> most of the time resolving target platform). The job checks every 10
>> minutes if there are new commits. With Gerrit in place this shouldn't
>> be so frequent.
>
> Given that a build that uses cached artifacts takes 2.5 minutes which
> is about 5x faster and consumes a magnitude less resources I would
> prefer if we reverted that change.
>
>> For the other target platform I would like to see two additional jobs
>> which could run as downstream jobs (i.e. only run if the build for one
>> target platform is green). Should I request them? What I didn't
>> understand is what's the difference between "nightly" and "release"
>> build mentioned in the Eclipse Hudson wiki. Any idea?
>
> Release builds would probably execute additional steps such as tagging
> or signing.
>
> Essentially every Mylyn sub-project will have these requirements:
> * A build job that executes frequently and completes quickly to
> provide feedback on (proposed) changes.
> * A nightly build that tests on all supported targets and possibly
> several platforms.
>
> To reduce maintenance overhead for everyone, would it work if we setup
> three nightly jobs that built all Mylyn projects in one go and run all
> tests against Eclipse 3.5, 3. 6 and 3.7?
>
> Steffen
>
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