Hello Zach,
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:37:27 -0600 Zach Pfeffer zach.pfeffer@linaro.org wrote:
Right now we have many build configurations. For example,
Do you mean "many", or "long", or "changing too often"?
https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-origen-11.12...
uses
MANIFEST_REPO=git://android.git.linaro.org/platform/manifest.git MANIFEST_BRANCH=linaro-android-11.12-release MANIFEST_FILENAME=staging-origen.xml TARGET_PRODUCT=origen TARGET_SIMULATOR=false TOOLCHAIN_URL=http://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/toolchain-4.6-2011.12... TOOLCHAIN_TRIPLET=arm-linux-androideabi REPO_SEED_URL=http://android-build.linaro.org/seed/pandaboard.mirror.tar.gz SOURCE_OVERLAY="origen/20111215/vendor.tar.bz2" LAVA_SUBMIT=1 LAVA_SUBMIT_FATAL=0 SYNC_JOBS=10
I'd like to move this into a git in 12.01.
Does this seem feasible?
Well, let's remember why we have build configuration process as it is now - to have it both flexible and extensible, and yet easy for any Linaro engineer (not only from Android team, but also from Validation, Kernel, etc.) to start using and use it. So, if we'll add "config from git" support, we'll still need to keep current "easy edit by hand" approach. Then, we'll have to approaches, with usual issues - more stuff to maintain, more stuff for folks to remember, harder to use/more chance of errors.
So, what are specific factors to call for adding that "config from git"? If it's access control, I'd like to remind that we have special "linaro-android-official-builders" group, only its members can edit official builds. By limiting that group to 2-3 people for each release process, there can be better change tracking. And only of keeping explicit change log for (some) build configs is crucially required feature, than IMHO it's worth to complicate process with additional rules.
Otherwise, technically, I don't see big problems with implementing that (at least in the simplest way), but that depends on more detailed spec for how it should look/work.
Thanks, Paul
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