Steve, travis+appveyor are about running platform tests while buildbot is
running all the plugin tests as well.

Dmitry, can you elaborate on the specifics of the path-length issue?
Is it one platform in particular?


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On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Steven Gill <stevengil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Quick question, why don't keep travis + appveyor as well as build bot?  I
> don't see the reason to remove that functionality.
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Dmitry Blotsky <dblot...@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > CI has been doing pretty well this week. Some notable things are:
> > - We’re hitting scaling issues (a buffer of 70+ pending builds happened a
> > few times this week)
> > - We’re still waiting on INFRA-9811 and INFRA-9678 for PR-triggered
> builds
> >
> > Next uses for the CI that are impeded by the scaling issues:
> > - Static analysis (FB Infer)
> > - Automated releases
> > - Documentation generation
> > - Testing on more emulators, platforms, and devices
> > - FirefoxOS, BlackBerry, and WebOS (seeing a lot of love recently)
> > - Moving our platform and tools CI from Travis and AppVeyor to Buildbot,
> > so all our builds are on Apache infrastructure
> >
> > Thoughts on improving scalability:
> > - Builds can be greatly sped up if we can alleviate the path-length limit
> > issue that prevents us from packaging up a Cordova build
> > - Does anyone know of a tool that can zip up too-long paths?
> > - Does anyone know if we can reduce our path lengths?
> > - Does anyone know where we can store a buffer of builds? Cordova-vm is
> an
> > option (~30GB of space).
> > - We can run more builds in parallel if folks connect more slaves to the
> > CI (instructions here:
> > https://github.com/apache/cordova-medic/blob/master/SLAVES.md)
> > - We can split the build process into levels (e.g. smoke, regression,
> > end-to-end) and run them on different occasions
> >
> > Bug status:
> > ~1 on Android OSX
> > ~2 on Android Windows
> > ~20 on iOS
> > 0 on Windows Phone 8.1
> > 0 on Windows 8.1
> > 0 on Windows 8.0
> > 0 on Windows Phone 8.0
> >
> > Kindly,
> > Dmitry
> >
>

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