Automatically running /usr/tests on stable/10 branch under Jenkins

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 24 03:31:28 UTC 2014


On 2014-10-23 18:30, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Craig!
>>         As much as everyone would like to take i386 out to pasture,
>> there's a large degree of value in running i386 tests on 11-CURRENT and
>> 10-STABLE (I've caught some interesting build bugs and test bugs by running
>> on my i386/CURRENT VM). Are there any plans to have i386 executors running
>> tests anytime soon (does bhyve support i386?)?
>>
> 
> 
> We (jenkins-admin at freebsd.org) have been busy the 5 months since BSDCan
> 2014 as
> you can see by our status report, which lists what we have done, and what
> our future plans are:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.html#Jenkins-Continuous-Integration-for-FreeBSD
> 
> Integrating Jenkins with Kyua on amd64 was a major milestone which was
> achieved, and
> was even mentioned on the Jenkins web site:
> 
> http://jenkins-ci.org/content/freebsd-project-use-jenkins-os-testing
> 
> Now, where to take this further (such as i386) is an interesting question.
> 
> Personally, I would like to see:
>    -> integration of automated kyua testing with the FreeBSD release
> engineering process
>    -> more involvement from FreeBSD developers, and even companies such as
> EMC/Isilon,
>        who can:
>            -> write tests
>            -> suggest and implement new tests (network, storage, VM, etc.)
>            -> help with devops maintenance of the existing
> jenkins.freebsd.org cluster
>            -> improve bhyve support in libvirt
>            -> set up their own Jenkins build environments outside of
> FreeBSD, and help test things in their own private environments
> 
> I've had requests for;
>    -> running tests in bhyve VM's with very small memory footprints
> (Adrian Chadd)
>    -> running tests in MIPS environment (Adrian Chadd)
>    -> running Java JDK tests (Kip Macy)
>    -> i386 builds (Garrett Cooper)
> 
> There are a lot of different directions to take this, but without more
> people (and companies) pitching in and helping out,
> progress is limited by bodies working on the stuff.
> 
> I will be at the MeetBSD Vendor summit (not the conference) Nov. 3-4, so
> hopefully
> anyone interested in pushing this stuff forward can talk to me there.
> 
> --
> Craig
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At the Cambridge Dev Summit, Xinuous specifically mentioned helping with
testing and writing tests. Might be good people to reach out to

-- 
Allan Jude

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