Thanks for the great work and article Paul. Seeded builds have had a
transformative effect on our productivity!
On 1 December 2011 09:46, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We launched "seeded" builds on Linaro Android Build System
> (https://android-build.linaro.org) more than a week ago with the aim to
> improve build performance and stability, following Android ICS import
> which overloaded our previous build infrastructure, and looking forward
> into making Android RC preparation to be comfortable instead of
> stressful it became due to infra overload.
>
> From the very first builds it was clear that it is huge relief
> for problems we have, but it took entire Android team involvement to
> prove that they're working as expected. And now, almost 2 weeks later,
> we even enough stats materials to assess how much improvement they
> actually did. So, I wrote a blog article about that, which includes
> nice build time chart which vividly shows it all:
> http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2011/12/01/improving-performance-of-linaro-android-build-service/
>
> The seeded builds launch effort was a big success in cooperation
> between Infrastructure and Android team, led by Platform Director, and
> I would like to thank everyone for you discussion, involvement, peer
> review!
>
> One last thing I would like to add though is that we essentially just
> *started* deployment of the seeded builds, they will require more time
> to uncover their full potential and made be well maintainable, so work
> on that continues thru 11.12
>
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
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