Re: [Gimp-developer] Jenkins infrastructure (Was: Jenkins tutorial)

[scl <scl gplus gmail com>]

Forwarded with Sam Gleske's permission:
On  24.2.2014 at 3:21 PM Sam Gleske wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:05 AM, scl <scl gplus gmail com
> > <mailto:scl gplus gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> >     But if you have sth. stable for production use and are willing to
> >     contribute it in form of a Jenkins job, I'll be glad to integrate it.
> >     I think our both wikis (wiki.gimp.org <http://wiki.gimp.org>,
> >     gui.gimp.org <http://gui.gimp.org>) would benefit
> >     from such a test, too.
> >     Schumaml, Prokoudine etc.: what are your thoughts or requirements
> >     about it?
>
> I'm not familiar with the shorthand "sth".  I can start running tests
> against www.gimp.org <http://www.gimp.org> and begin to start ironing
> out bugs which would need to be fixed in my program.  I've run into bugs
> here and there running my crawler against large websites.  Right now
> I've crawled and run against Drexel University IRT website using the
> crawler which is ~70k links.  I'll do it for www.gimp.org
> <http://www.gimp.org> too and then contribute a Job when I have it ready
> (and for the other GIMP websites as well).

I don't know whether this could cause technical problems for 
www.gimp.org. The reason why I wrote 'something stable for production 
use' is that I want to avoid just them ;-)
Thus it would be good to hear our website administrators opinion to that.

> Also, I'd like to note that
> if you're not using git hooks now would be a good time to use them.
> Rather than using Jenkins to constantly poll the SCM simply implement a
> hook to launch a Jenkins job when a certain branch is committed to.

Currently we're polling SCM every few minutes. Adding a git hook to the
repository would surely need involvement of the GNOME administrators.
Is there a good reason to switch over from polling to hooking?

Greetings,

Sven