[Development] Periodical digest from CI (04/2013)

[Sarajärvi Tony]

Hi all!

Our CI team has been busy putting out small bush fires here and there. There's always something broken that needs fixing and investigating.

We have added more Windows and Mac machines to the CI system, so the build cycle should be a bit faster on those parts. However, we have had problems with our Git mirroring, causing builds to fail to the initial check-out. This is something that's under investigation right now.

The slow cycle implementation is happening. Difficult to give you estimates, but my priority one is getting this up and running ASAP.

We also have a new network test server on top of Ubuntu 12.04. It's currently being tested before taken into use. The puppet configuration is still not done for this, but we'll create it once we take it into production use. Hopefully you will also have less problems getting this new one up and running then.

As the cmd.exe problem for our Windows 8 builds still exists, we set up two new servers just to narrow down the problem. One Windows 7 64bit and one Windows 8 32bit. However, we haven't been able to reproduce the problem in either of those. As a next step, we might just recreate the Windows 8 64bit computers from scratch and see if that helps.

If you have any concerns or questions regarding the CI or you just want to talk with us, you can find us in IRC (freenode / #qt or #qt-qa)

Regards,
-Tony

Tony Sarajärvi
Senior Software Designer
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