On 9/21/05, James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My goal is to have the sources for both 1.2.7 branch and HEAD in such > a way that if Infra decides to zap the zones, that I can just flip on > my cron job again and poof (just as quickly) we are back in business.
Right. My point was that we'd have lost a week's worth of nightlies, so if there are problems with the latest one, we can't tell people to pick up one from a few days ago. But maybe we don't care enough about that to worry about it. -- Martin Cooper I'm half way there. The 1.2 branch build is complete, and now being > built and uploaded from the zone to minotar (the normal nightly spot) > using my account. It is still not automated (crontab), but it's > there. And let me just say, that machine simply screems! I can do a > full release of the 1.2 branch in about 35 seconds (not counting > download-dependencies). It was at about 3 or 4 minutes on my linux box. > > > For HEAD, this means getting the maven build streamlined, which I've > already done some work on, but things could be even faster. I'll > keep plugging away, but be aware that someone is bound to notice the > missing nightlies for 1.3.x. > > > > -- > James Mitchell > Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist > Consulting / Mentoring / Freelance > EdgeTech, Inc. > http://www.edgetechservices.net/ > 678.910.8017 > AIM: jmitchtx > Yahoo: jmitchtx > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype: callto://jmitchtx > > > > > > On Sep 21, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Martin Cooper wrote: > > > On 9/20/05, James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> I have finally gotten around to finishing the setup of my account on > >> our zone (http://www.apache.org/dev/solaris-zones.html) and thanks to > >> Martin and Google, I'm now able to fully build the nightly (by hand) > >> of the entire Struts project. > >> > > > > > > Woohoo! :-) > > > > For those who haven't been watching, the nightly builds that were > > > >> happening on my machine began failing during the 'svn up' portion of > >> the script. This basically caused Maven do say "oh cool, nothings > >> changed, let's not build any artifacts", and the rest of the shell > >> script just happily uploads the same jars from the last build. This > >> explains the mismatch in date/name of some of the nightly artifacts. > >> > >> So, where are we? > >> Currently, the latest build (nightly) is available here (http:// > >> struts.zones.apache.org/~jmitchell/nightly/)<http://struts.zones.apache.org/~jmitchell/nightly/)> > <http:// > >> struts.zones.apache.org/~jmitchell/nightly/)<http://struts.zones.apache.org/~jmitchell/nightly/)> > >. > >> I also updated the > >> readme on the regular nightly download page to point to this interim > >> spot. This is a manual process right now. > >> > >> > >> Where do we want to be? > >> Typically, nightlies are hosted from /www/cvs.apache.org/build/ > >> {project}. > >> Right now, both Craig and my own personal machines are configured to > >> pull from cvs/svn, run the build, and upload something to that > >> location. This can only happen as a cron job if we copy the > >> appropriate ssh keys to the target server (no login prompted). > >> > >> The question really comes down to "Where will the nightlies live?". > >> > >> If we want to use some generic account on the zone to build the > >> nightly, the script would need to either: > >> a) use someone's account (mine?) to build/scp the nightlies over to > >> cvs.apache.org <http://cvs.apache.org> <http://cvs.apache.org> > >> b) build via a generic account and scp via a valid account (committer > >> account on the zone) > >> > >> Although, we can actually avoid all of this by just hosting the > >> nightlies from the zone. The url might look like this: > >> http://struts.zones.apache.org/~nightly/ > >> > > > > > > As Craig mentioned, the zones are, in theory, still subject to > > disappearing > > in a puff of bits, so I'd prefer to see the nightlies pushed to > > minotaur so > > that they're still around if that does ever happen. I think we > > should have a > > 'build' account on the zone that does the actual building; I don't > > have any > > good ideas on the key to use to push them over when they're done. > > > > That said, with Justin and Leo both stepping back from infra@, and > > several > > others being, uh, less prominent than they used to be, it's not > > clear that > > much of anything is going to happen on the zones machine in the > > near future > > that would disrupt us. > > > > If we do distribute from the zone itself, it would be nice to have > > a URL > > more like: > > > > http://struts.zones.apache.org/builds/nightly > > > > rather than actually exposing an account name in the URL. ;-) > > > > -- > > Martin Cooper > > > > > > Somewhat related - Craig, if you are interested, I'd be happy to help > > > >> you move your nightly Ant builds to the new zone. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> James Mitchell > >> Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist > >> Consulting / Mentoring / Freelance > >> EdgeTech, Inc. > >> http://www.edgetechservices.net/ > >> 678.910.8017 > >> AIM: jmitchtx > >> Yahoo: jmitchtx > >> MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Skype: callto://jmitchtx > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
