Hello Alexander,

Thanks a lot for helping with ci queries in my absence.

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Alexander Sack <a...@linaro.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Christian Robottom Reis 
> <k...@linaro.org>wrote:
>
>> I think there's a standard link missing from CI pages such as
>>
>>
>> https://ci.linaro.org/jenkins/job/TI-working-tree_tilt-linux-linaro-3.1_panda-omap4plus/
>>
>> to the output directory at
>>
>>
>> http://snapshots.linaro.org/kernel-hwpack/TI-working-tree/TI-working-tree_tilt-linux-linaro-3.1_panda-omap4plus/
>>
>> Is that right? For some background, we got this inquiry on IRC:
>>
>>    <slado> rsalveti: are there prebuilt linaro kernels for ubuntu that
>>    have hdmi fixes described in bug 919378?
>>
>> I went to look at the bug and then figured the latest CI build might
>> have the code included. Indeed it does:
>>
>>
>> https://ci.linaro.org/jenkins/job/TI-working-tree_tilt-linux-linaro-3.1_panda-omap4plus/4/changes#detail2
>>
>> However, I couldn't find a way of getting the binary generated from the
>> build, and had to actually use my rapidly deteriorating memory to get to
>> snapshots.linaro.org, where I had to also go through a confusing set of
>> directories to get to what I think is the actual build.
>>
>
> We don't export the .deb package itself. What we export is the complete
> hwpack for such "pure" upstream CI jobs:
> http://ci.linaro.org/kernel_hwpack/ (in this case:
> http://ci.linaro.org/kernel_hwpack/TI-working-tree/TI-working-tree_tilt-linux-linaro-3.1_panda-omap4plus/)
> ... can you find that build there?
>

No the hwpack would be absent on the ci.linaro.org because the job does not
copy the hwpack to ci.linaro.org anymore.

>
> (I don't know about the retention policy on that place atm.)
>

The hwpacks are not deleted as of now, but we are coming up with a
retention policy for obvious disk space reasons.

>
> Short term I see two things that would be really important:
>  1. a really easy to find link to the LAVA job submitted

This has been planned since quite sometime, but has always been down in the
list since something else always took more priority.
I will work on this at the earliest. Raised a bug to track this
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-ci/+bug/982836.


>  2. good display of the meta information of the build/lava job submitted
> which would include the link to the hwpack (as that is what is passed to
> LAVA as one artifact) as well as information about the git source and
> commit (and we could make a link to gitweb out of it when visualizing this
> job).

Ultimately, we want to have a way to have all meta-information for all
> steps of a CI job nicely visualized (e.g. automerging, auto buiding,
> validating, etc.).
>
> Do you mean we should have all this information as part of each job that
is run on ci.linaro.org as meta information listed above is already
available on validation.linaro.org.

> Anyway, we should start thinking about visualizing CI jobs and make them
> navigatable soon. I don't want to see us making the mistake again to wait
> for a nice UI until all the plumming is done. That approach just leave lots
> of value on the floor! I am sure Andy, Ricardo and Danilo are already
> thinking about this though :).
>
>
> --
> Alexander Sack
> Technical Director, Linaro Platform Teams
> http://www.linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
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Deepti
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