[Development] Becoming a Tier 1 platform and the CI System

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 6 de junho de 2012 11.46.18, Sean Harmer wrote:
> What other gates do we also have to pass to promote QNX to Tier 1?

The major target is that, at release time, you're able to confidently say that 
this platform is working properly and all the showstopper issues (as judged by 
the release testing) have been fixed. This, in turn, requires that there are 
people testing that platform at release time and can report issues. If no one 
tests, we'll have zero out of zero fixes and we can't give the Tier 1 label out 
of a division by zero :-)

Being in the CI system is just one of the common ways of achieving that. If 
you can compile and run unit tests on that platform at every commit, it helps 
avoiding them at release time. But it's not strictly necessary: it might be 
acceptable to run the unit tests at release time and say they're passing, 
along with the rest of the release testing. I wouldn't recommend this, though.

I don't know the technical details on how to integrate with the current CI 
system. But the first thing you're going to need is to have some way for the CI 
manager to tell you "test this SHA-1 / build number[1]" and then you have to 
report back a pass or fail, with the logs. Are you able to do that already?

[1] the commit that a build IDs refers to can be obtained from the Gerrit 
repository

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