Hi Folks,

The upgrade to the newest stable version of jenkins had a couple challenges, 
but went faster than I expected.  A daily build and test is running now, as 
well as a pull-request check test.  So far, so good.

--Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Varnau <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 9:12 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Automated test problems
> 
> External
> 
> Following up on jenkins issues, the jenkins server was not sick on its own, 
> but
> was being attacked with malware.  We are running a bit older version of
> jenkins, and it is exploiting a vulnerability there.  I have not been able to 
> fully
> close the hole without a major upgrade to the jenkins server and related
> plugins.
> 
> I'm babysitting the current test that we've tried to run for several days, but
> after that, I plan to take jenkins offline and work on upgrade.  It might 
> take a
> few days to get everything working properly.
> 
> In the mean time, I suggest contributors, reviewers, and committers have a
> little more explicit conversations about what regression testing has been
> done on changes coming in.  There is nothing jenkins was doing that can't be
> done with regular regression testing and reviews.
> 
> --Steve
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Varnau <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 11:38 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Automated test problems
> >
> > External
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > The automated testing has been very flakey over the past week or two.  I
> > had thought there were network communication issues in the hosting
> > provider, but I now think the jenkins server itself was a bit sick.  I am
> hopeful
> > that it is sorted out now and we are back to the stable environment we had
> > before.
> >
> > --Steve

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