On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Alexander Sack <asac@linaro.org> wrote:

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?

No the hwpack would be absent on the ci.linaro.org because the job does not copy the hwpack to ci.linaro.org anymore.

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

The hwpacks are not deleted as of now, but we are coming up with a retention policy for obvious disk space reasons.

Short term I see two things that would be really important:
1. a really easy to find link to the LAVA job submitted

This has been planned since quite sometime, but has always been down in the list since something else always took more priority.
I will work on this at the earliest. Raised a bug to track this https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-ci/+bug/982836.

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.).

Do you mean we should have all this information as part of each job that is run on ci.linaro.org as meta information listed above is already available on validation.linaro.org.

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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Alexander Sack
Technical Director, Linaro Platform Teams
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