reminder:  this IS happening, first thing monday morning PDT.  :)

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:01 PM, shane knapp <skn...@berkeley.edu> wrote:

> greetings!
>
> i've got some updates regarding our new jenkins infrastructure, as well as
> the initial date and plan for rolling things out:
>
> *** current testing/build break whack-a-mole:
> a lot of out of date artifacts are cached in the current jenkins, which
> has caused a few builds during my testing to break due to dependency
> resolution failure[1][2].
>
> bumping these versions can cause your builds to fail, due to public api
> changes and the like.  consider yourself warned that some projects might
> require some debugging...  :)
>
> tomorrow, i will be at databricks working w/@joshrosen to make sure that
> the spark builds have any bugs hammered out.
>
> ***  deployment plan:
> unless something completely horrible happens, THE NEW JENKINS WILL GO LIVE
> ON MONDAY (october 13th).
>
> all jenkins infrastructure will be DOWN for the entirety of the day
> (starting at ~8am).  this means no builds, period.  i'm hoping that the
> downtime will be much shorter than this, but we'll have to see how
> everything goes.
>
> all test/build history WILL BE PRESERVED.  i will be rsyncing the jenkins
> jobs/ directory over, complete w/history as part of the deployment.
>
> once i'm feeling good about the state of things, i'll point the original
> url to the new instances and send out an all clear.
>
> if you are a student at UC berkeley, you can log in to jenkins using your
> LDAP login, and (by default) view but not change plans.  if you do not have
> a UC berkeley LDAP login, you can still view plans anonymously.
>
> IF YOU ARE A PLAN ADMIN, THEN PLEASE REACH OUT, ASAP, PRIVATELY AND I WILL
> SET UP ADMIN ACCESS TO YOUR BUILDS.
>
> ***  post deployment plan:
> fix all of the things that break!
>
> i will be keeping a VERY close eye on the builds, checking for breaks, and
> helping out where i can.  if the situation is dire, i can always roll back
> to the old jenkins infra...  but i hope we never get to that point!  :)
>
> i'm hoping that things will go smoothly, but please be patient as i'm
> certain we'll hit a few bumps in the road.
>
> please let me know if you guys have any comments/questions/concerns...  :)
>
> shane
>
> 1 - https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/bdg-services/pull/18
> 2 - https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/avocado/pull/111
>

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