[Commotion-dev] getting MeshTether to build from git

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hey Will,

I'd be happy to advise on the process of setting up a Jenkins box, its not too
complicated.  I recommend running it on Debian/stable.  The first question to
ask about your Jenkins box is whether you want to use it for build feedback
and tests only, or whether you want to make trusted builds from it.  I would
not trust a public Jenkins to make release builds, period.  Its not secure
enough.  A public Jenkins might be OK to make public test builds, if its
closely watched.  We need our Jenkins to produce trusted test builds, so its
not publicly available.

We have heard about the possibility of having a private Jenkins instance sync
its info with a public Jenkins instance, so you can have the best of both
worlds.  We hope to try this out some day in the not too distant future.

That said, at this point running the MeshTether job is basically zero pressure
on our build server or me.  Once its setup, it mostly just runs.  I have found
that using build slaves to be the opposite though, they can be quite unstable.

.hc

On 07/23/2013 07:42 PM, Will Hawkins wrote:
> Hey Hans!
> 
> Thanks for getting this set up on your build server. We now have
> Jordan back in the office (he's back from his school year at Stanford)
> and he is leading the charge to get our build server up and running.
> We've got all the physical components here and they are going to go
> online in the next few days.
> 
> If possible, we'd like to replicate your MeshTether build system on
> that server. That will relieve some pressure on you from having to
> host it and it will give us a good sense of the Jenkins system and its
> configuration.
> 
> Would you be willing to help us do that? I know you've spent lots of
> time working with Jenkins and we could benefit from your expertise.
> 
> Thanks so much!
> Will
> 
> On 07/23/2013 02:05 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
>> Hey all,
> 
>> I've added Commotion MeshTether to the official Guardian build
>> server, this is a hardened build server that we use to make
>> automatic, trusted test builds. The box itself is not publicly
>> online, but it posts its results here:
> 
>> https://guardianproject.info/builds/CommotionMeshTether/
> 
>> I recently did some work to get it closer to building straight from
>> git.  It will now automatically build whenever anyone pushes a
>> commit, and if there is a problem, it will email the email
>> addresses found in the commits.
> 
>> I just got it building, but I haven't tested it at all.  Feedback
>> appreciated. I'd like to add MeshTether to F-Droid to get it out
>> there.
> 
>> .hc
> 
> 
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