[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1887: New Buildbot

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#1887: New Buildbot
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 Reporter:  robe        |       Owner:  robe          
     Type:  task        |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  blocker     |   Milestone:  Management 2.0
Component:  management  |     Version:  2.0.x         
 Keywords:              |  
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 I think we are outgrowing our current build infrastructure and need to
 start doing more automated tests of platforms.

 As Chris noted:
 http://www.postgis.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2012-June/021221.html

 Jenkins is a fork of Hudson that seems to garner the bulk of FOSS love.
 Hudson still exists and is still being extended by Oracle, but form what I
 can gather Hudson is catering more to Enterprise extensiosn and things
 that Oracle find lucrative to support.

 The founder of Hudson forked it to form Jenkins and it has way more
 developers now than Hudson does and a ton of plugins.  It has a Git plugin
 so seems possible to have it build our git repos as we slowly migrate to
 that.

 The only gripe I have with Jenkins/Hudson (which I think strk shares -
 funny we have something in common) is that it is Java based.  I'm willing
 to live with that.

 It does seem perfect for our project because
 a) it does have native installers for most OS which if you don't have JRE
 installs it for you
 b) has a Maven plugin so building our jdbc drivers with our new maven
 framework should be easy

 c) Has support for slaves.  I'm still getting up to speed with it and how
 the whole slave architecture works.  For windows -- a slave can run as a
 service, probably requires java.  It seems for Unix like systems as best I
 can gather it would require an account with shell access that can launch
 processes.  So I think strk your concern about slaves needing to run java
 may not be required.

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