On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:11 AM, Barry van Someren wrote:
Wow, awesome! Thanks to all involved in bringing this new infrastructure.
A big "you're welcome" and a modest "no problem" followed by a heart- felt "my pleasure" :)
So are we going to have continious builds of Geronimo using this?
Yes, indeed. Geronimo and the whole gang.
We use them over at where I work and they help a lot by constantly reporting the results of changes made to the codebase during the day. The builds are very fast too when looking at the start/end times :-)
I've cobbled bash scripts over the last two years to do some of this kind of thing, but those were just band-aids, this is the real deal. I'm really really excited we have it. Plenty of room for more fun things too!
I highly encourage people to get involved in the Continuum project, which is a subproject of Apache Maven. They are begging for some excited people to come over and join in the fun. (http:// maven.apache.org/continuum/index.html)
I think it would be really cool to replace Continuum's internal build queue with a distributed queue and be able to schedule builds to machines all over the network running different OSs on various processors and VMs. I took a brief look and it doesn't actually seem like it's that hard.
-David
Regards, Barry On 10/26/05, David Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Since testing/building is a really hard thing in Geronimo and the large community of projects surrounding it, Dain and I decided it was time to take action and put our own $$ on the table to help. Projects like Geronimo, OpenEJB and ActiveMQ have provided us with so much opportunity, we saw this as a way to give back on a very personal level. We went out and purchased four servers on our own dime that we are dedicating to all the projects that comprise Geronimo. The focus is on providing the large community of committers on the various projects the resources to test and build and keep the Geronimo ecosystem running. We hope these four machines will be the start of something bigger. When I close my eyes and think big, I see a large federation consisting of smaller groups of machines from individuals and companies sharing some common building/testing infrastructure, open to and co-maintained by members of the community projects, building all our code all the time and testing it on every variety of OS, VM and Database imaginable.... We're not there yet. Baby steps. To date I've written a lot of scripts to do builds, nightly tests with 6 MB emails that tick people off, unstable builds, official releases, publish jars ... you name it. Keeping that kind of stuff running a real trick. Other people have cobbled up some stuff for themselves as well. For the immediate time-frame, I hope that we can at least use these machines to keep our various projects built on a regular basis with jars published using tools we setup and maintain as a community. We sure need it, releases are too painful. With that said, meet the family: stan.gbuild.org kyle.gbuild.org kenny.gbuild.org cartman.build.org Stan and Kenny are mine, Kyle and Cartman are Dain's. I picked the domain cause it sounded fun and the machine names for the same reason. All four boxes are Pentium Dual Core 830s (3.0GHz/2X1MB Cache, 800MHz FSB), with 2GB RAM and 80GB drives. Accounts available to committers of Geronimo, OpenEJB, ActiveMQ, ActiveIO and other Geronimo-related projects upon request. I've setup a Continuum install and have some of the projects running in it now: http://ci.gbuild.org/continuum/servlet/continuum Huge thanks are in order: - Dain Sundstrom for not even flinching when the idea when from "hey lets buy a box" to "hey let's buy four boxes." - Simula Labs (http://www.simulalabs.com/) for donating hosting for the four boxes. - Mergere (http://www.mergere.com/) for helping me setup Continuum to run our builds. Immediate needs: - Some help setting up LDAP for user/group accounts across the four boxes. - Help adding more projects to continuum - Help converting existing projects in continuum to not be "shell projects" in continuum's eyes. - Help getting an unstable build script going again.- Converting anything bash-like to jelly or something m2 supported.- More boxes? - Anything you can think of.... -David
