[Accelutils-devel] Building in the cloud!

[Carcassi, G. <car...@bn...>]

Hi all,

As you know, the build infrastructure I had setup at BNL was starting to be a pain.
* an outside collaborator would violate BNL policies
* we have to maintain the service (Jenkins and the plugins)
* we would have to maintain the execution environment (installing java, maven, and whatnot)
* a bad build could hang the server (we are using the same machine for everything)

Well, no more! I unveil to you the build as a service:
https://openepics.ci.cloudbees.com/

As you noticed, I have already converted 5 projects: JCA, CAJ, epics-util, graphene and pvManager. They all build there, they publish the result of the build in the maven repository and the sites on sourceforge. The service is provided by cloudbees, that granted us a FOSS account (http://www.cloudbees.com/foss). This gives us, among other things, 2000 free build minutes (if you go over you get charged).

I will be removing the old tasks from irmis-dev, and invite anybody who had jobs there (Matej, Ralph, Kunal) to contact me to setup an account so that you can start moving too. If anybody else wants an account, please let me know. They also have a platform to host running services (e.g. for our integration tests) and mysql database instances: if anybody can step up and figure that out for channelfinder and olog, that would be good!

If anybody is interested, this Friday morning I can give a short walk through to anybody who is interested.

Thanks,
Gabriele