On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@linaro.org> wrote:
I think there's a standard link missing from CI pages such as

   https://ci.linaro.org/jenkins/job/TI-working-tree_tilt-linux-linaro-3.1_panda-omap4plus/

to the output directory at

   http://snapshots.linaro.org/kernel-hwpack/TI-working-tree/TI-working-tree_tilt-linux-linaro-3.1_panda-omap4plus/

Is that right? For some background, we got this inquiry on IRC:

   <slado> rsalveti: are there prebuilt linaro kernels for ubuntu that
   have hdmi fixes described in bug 919378?

I went to look at the bug and then figured the latest CI build might
have the code included. Indeed it does:

   https://ci.linaro.org/jenkins/job/TI-working-tree_tilt-linux-linaro-3.1_panda-omap4plus/4/changes#detail2

However, I couldn't find a way of getting the binary generated from the
build, and had to actually use my rapidly deteriorating memory to get to
snapshots.linaro.org, where I had to also go through a confusing set of
directories to get to what I think is the actual build.

We don't export the .deb package itself. What we export is the complete hwpack for such "pure" upstream CI jobs: http://ci.linaro.org/kernel_hwpack/ (in this case: http://ci.linaro.org/kernel_hwpack/TI-working-tree/TI-working-tree_tilt-linux-linaro-3.1_panda-omap4plus/) ... can you find that build there?

(I don't know about the retention policy on that place atm.)

Short term I see two things that would be really important:
 1. a really easy to find link to the LAVA job submitted
 2. good display of the meta information of the build/lava job submitted which would include the link to the hwpack (as that is what is passed to LAVA as one artifact) as well as information about the git source and commit (and we could make a link to gitweb out of it when visualizing this job).

Ultimately, we want to have a way to have all meta-information for all steps of a CI job nicely visualized (e.g. automerging, auto buiding, validating, etc.).

Anyway, we should start thinking about visualizing CI jobs and make them navigatable soon. I don't want to see us making the mistake again to wait for a nice UI until all the plumming is done. That approach just leave lots of value on the floor! I am sure Andy, Ricardo and Danilo are already thinking about this though :).


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