Hi Francesco, Do you see any ways to resolve the problem through: a) increase default 2 minutes timeout b) optimize cargo Syncope startup (not sure is it really possible)
? Cheers, Andrei. > -----Original Message----- > From: Francesco Chicchiriccò [mailto:ilgro...@apache.org] > Sent: Freitag, 15. März 2013 11:15 > To: dev@syncope.apache.org > Subject: [DISCUSS] Continuous integration > > Hi all, > as you might have noticed, our Jenkins jobs [1] are quite unstable, lately > more than ever. > > This is not due to actual test failures but (almost always) to the inability > of > Jenkins nodes to start Tomcat via cargo within 2 minutes (the default for > cargo, 120000 msecs). > And this is in turn caused by the high load under which the ASF Jenkins > infrastructure is working; lately more than ever. > > Having seen this trend, I have recently added some Syncope jobs to our > company Jenkins instance [2]; this in order to have a more reliable reference > to understand at first glance whether an ASF Jenkins failure is actually due > to > test failures or not. > > But this is not satisfying for different reasons: > 1. it is a private - even though publicly accessible - Jenkins > instance: for this reason, for example, it is not configured for sending > messages to dev@syncope.apache.org (as instead ASF Jenkins does) > 2. it cannot access ASF JIRA to publish test results as an issue comment (is > that true?) > 3. we don't have enough bandwidth to continuously publish Maven artifacts > to ASF snapshot repository > 4. I don't know if this is allowed by ASF policies > > If there is no way out of this ASF Jenkins trouble, I'd propose then to find > some other free CI over the Internet (Cloudbees Jenkins [3] or Travis CI [4]). > > WDYT? > > [1] https://builds.apache.org/view/S-Z/view/Syncope/ > [2] http://jenkins.tirasa.net/ > [3] http://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-enterprise-by-cloudbees- > overview.cb > [4] https://travis-ci.org/ > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > ASF Member, Apache Syncope PMC chair, Apache Cocoon PMC Member > http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
