+1 I like this a lot! On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 at 10:37 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote:
> Fantastic Davor ! > > I like this approach, I gonna take a deeper look. > > Thanks ! > > Regards > JB > > On 11/15/2016 10:01 AM, Davor Bonaci wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > As I'm sure everybody knows, we use Apache's Jenkins instance for all our > > testing, including pre-commit, post-commit, nightly snapshot, etc. > (Travis > > CI is a backup system and recommended for individual forks only.) > > > > Managing Jenkins projects has been a big pain point so far. Among other > > reasons, only a few of us have access to configure it, way too few of us > > have visibility into what those jobs do, and nobody has any visibility > into > > changes being made or an opportunity to comment on them. > > > > Well, not any more! I was playing a little bit with Jenkins DSL plugin > and > > was able to move our configuration out of Jenkins and into the git > > repository. I've done it as a proof of concept for the website repository > > only [1], but Jason is planning on extending that work to the main > > repository. Look for a PR shortly! > > > > Going forward, anyone can see what our Jenkins jobs are doing, and anyone > > can add new jobs or improve existing ones by simply proposing a pull > > request to change the configuration. Finally, the project maintains a > > history in source repository, instead of direct changes without much > > accountability. > > > > How this works? There's a "seed" job that periodically applies > > configuration specified in the source repository into Jenkins. Currently, > > this happens once per day. If you modify the configuration in the source > > repository, it will be applied within 24 hours. If you, however, modify > the > > configuration in Jenkins directly, it will revert back to whatever is > > specified in the code repository also within 24 hours. > > > > How to understand Jenkins DSL? There are many resources available; I've > > found Jenkins Job DSL API [2] particularly helpful. > > > > I hope you are excited to have this feature available to us! If you have > > any thoughts on improving this further, please comment. Thanks! > > > > Davor > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-beam-site/pull/80 > > [2] https://jenkinsci.github.io/job-dsl-plugin/ > > > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > jbono...@apache.org > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com >
