Hi, To summarize the discussion we have many votes to go this way.
My proposition is as first step remove windows nodes from jenkins builds, I see many fals positive fails on such node ... Next step can be stop building PR by jenkins - it is only triggered for dependabot and for branch from repo - not triggered for build PR for forked repo. sob., 2 lip 2022 o 21:42 Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> napisał(a): > Howdy, > > I'd like to spin a discussion about the ASF Maven Jenkins instance. > > As you know, ASF Infra operates one separate instance of Jenkins only for > Maven related projects. Still, aside this being a chore for INFRA, it does > have quite some shortcomings: > - lack of all needed OS-es (has linux and windows nodes only) > - regular (lately more often) issues with windows nodea (like post build > workspace cleanup and others). But really, like 1 out of 3 fails due to > some windows node issue. > In short, it does not give us needed coverage, plus regularly generates > false negatives (red X) for PRs and master builds. > > OTOH, GH Actions proved very usable, quick, has macOS and in general fast. > Still, GH Actions cannot deploy snapshots to repository.a.o, nor is > something we'd want (see last npmjs token leakage). > > Currently we have this "duality" of CI, and almost always one has to check > why a job failed, and MANY times it fails due Jenkins non-build related > issues (usually on Windows nodes). > > Hence, I'd propose something along those lines: > - "scale down" Jenkins, keep linux nodes only, and make it "deploy" only > (preferably of master branch commits only) > - hence Jenkins would "loose" CI title, it would be just "deployer" to > repository.a.o > - use GH Actions for running tests on PRs and master branches and rely on > its results on GH UI > > This would give us (and ASF INFRA) benefit of: > - the maintained instance becomes way simpler, linux only (ASF INFRA) > - PR and master CI results come in way faster > - no more (well, GH Actions has outages as well, but less) false negatives > > WDYT? > > T > -- Sławomir Jaranowski
