This is great. Thanks for all the hardwork Rohit. Will start using it. ~Rajani http://cloudplatform.accelerite.com/
On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > All, > > > Meet blueorangutan [1], a Github bot account that will help us automate > CloudStack (PR) testing [2][3] among other things. > > > It works by polling Github notifications for the apache/cloudstack > repository every minutes and then reacts to comments. We can post comments > on a apache/cloudstack PR and ask @blueorangutan to perform certain build > jobs such as building packages, then running Trillian [2] tests (across a > set of hypervisors) using those packages, and finally report us the results. > > > Since, the task of building packages and testing them are expensive. A > typical packaging job may take up to 30 minutes, a typical Trillian [2][3] > environment can take about 30 minutes to build/deploy a zone, and a > Trillian (smoke) test run may take hours while an exhaustive Trillian > (component+smoke) test run may take 3-4 days. Due to these reasons, for now > the '@blueorangutan test' task is restricted to a selected Github users (my > colleagues at ShapeBlue). Running Trillian test for each PR may be > expensive, we may consider batching smaller thoroughly reviewed PRs, then > create packages for a set of PRs and test them all at once as well. > > > The task to build (centos6, centos7, debian) packages is relatively less > expensive and anyone can request blueorangutan to build packages now by > commenting '@blueorangutan package' on a PR. > > > The great blue ape aims to be a quite friendly and polite bot, go on any > apache/cloudstack PR and try: > > '@blueorangutan hello' > > > Or, build package for a PR: > > '@blueorangutan package' > > > Or, if it helps you build packages you may say: > > '@blueorangutan thanks' > > > This is an experiment and I hope to improve this over time, any feedback > and comments are welcome. > > > [1] https://github.com/blueorangutan > > [2] http://www.shapeblue.com/trillian-flexible-on-demand- > individual-cloud-environment-creation/ > > [3] http://www.shapeblue.com/cloudstack-test-automation- > with-trillian-and-jenkins/ > > Regards. > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > @shapeblue > > > >
