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From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 14:08:22
Message-Id: alpine.LNX.2.00.1612041405521.24920@woodpecker.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 3 Dec 2016, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 13:13:36 +0000
4 > Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
5 >
6 >> On 12/03/2016 10:41 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
7 >>> On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 10:35:32 +0100
8 >>> Patrice Clement <monsieurp@g.o> wrote:
9 >>>
10 >>>> Friday 02 Dec 2016 14:10:27, Michał Górny wrote :
11 >>>>> Hi, everyone.
12 >>>>>
13 >>>>> I've heard multiple times about various tinderbox projects being
14 >>>>> started by individuals in Gentoo. In fact, so many different projects
15 >>>>> that I've forgotten who was working on most of them.
16 >>>>>
17 >>>>> I know that Toralf is doing tinderboxing for most of the stuff.
18 >>>>> What other projects do we have there? What is their status?
19 >>>>>
20 >>>>> Is there anything we could try to integrate with pull requests to get
21 >>>>> a better testing?
22 >>>>>
23 >>>>> --
24 >>>>> Best regards,
25 >>>>> Michał Górny
26 >>>>> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
27 >>>>
28 >>>> Continuous integration is all the rage these days and tinderboxing is the
29 >>>> obvious way to go concerning Gentoo. AFAIK, Toralf is the only contributor
30 >>>> doing tinderboxing out of his own will. In reality, we should have a team of
31 >>>> devs looking after our own tinderboxes instead of relying on the community.
32 >>>>
33 >>>> I'm wondering if we could start a donation campain for this project and ask
34 >>>> people if they've got spare machines laying around. I know a lot of folks are
35 >>>> reading this mailing list so maybe asking on gentoo-dev first for a start would
36 >>>> be appropriate.
37 >>>
38 >>> Hardware is not the problem. Lack of software is.
39 >>>
40 >>
41 >> Have you considered using openQA[1] like openSUSE[2] and Fedora[3] do
42 >> instead of reinventing the wheel?
43 >>
44 >> [1] http://open.qa/
45 >> [2] https://openqa.opensuse.org/
46 >> [3] https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/
47 >
48 > Do you by any chance happen to know how it maps to our needs?
49 > At a first glance it seems quite tangential.
50
51 Last time I looked at it, a few years ago at FOSDEM, one issue to me, at
52 least for testing release builds, was that it relied on fingerprint of
53 images and time delays. To me it would make more sense to get a "console"
54 and grep the output for relevant strings.
55 I don't know if / how it evolved, so this might no longer be true.
56
57 Regards,
58 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
59 Gentoo Developer