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ToDo for jenkins.debian.net
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:Author:           Holger Levsen
:Authorinitials:   holger
:EMail:            holger@layer-acht.org
:Status:           in progress
:lang:             en
:Doctype:          article
:Licence:	   GPLv2

== About jenkins.debian.net

See link:http://jenkins.debian.net/userContent/about.html["about jenkins.debian.net"].

== General ToDo

* keep git+svn urls, and use commit hooks. also better for test setups of this setup as well as overall stability.
** create d-i_svn_trigger job to trigger sub-set jobs (like manual)
** create d-i git hooks
* get rid of some reduncacy in job-cfg/*.yaml
** FIXME: sometimes true and some True used in yaml files
* proper git repo url, outside users/holger
** same for /srv/jenkins.debian.net-scm-sync.git
* fully automate backup and backup /var/lib/jenkins/jobs /var/lib/munin /var/log /root/ too
* try awstats
* put kgb-client.conf in git and sed passwords from filesystem into it...
* push jenkins munin plugins upstream
* rgrep for ftp.de and put this into a config file. and then put other stuff in that config file, like webserver for d-i preseeding. etc.
* use these plugins to make sure jenkins is never blocked too badly:
** https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Priority+Sorter+Plugin
** https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Locks+and+Latches+plugin or https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Throttle+Concurrent+Builds+Plugin
** https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Heavy+Job+Plugin

== Debian Packaging related

* /usr/sbin/jenkins.debian.net-setup needs to be written
* what update-j.d.n.sh does, needs to be put elsewhere...
* debian/copyright is incorrect about some licenses: a.) the profitbricks+debian+jenkins logos b.) the preseeding files
* switch to scm trigger instead of scm pulling before releasing this as 0.1...

=== jenkins-job-builder related

* support for gitweb in jobs 
** needs clean merge of my patches to jenkins-job-builder first...
* cleanup my patches (eg add documentation) and send pull requests on github:
** publisher:logparse
** publisher:htmlpublisher
** publisher:imagegallery
** svn:scm
** properties: sidebar
* d-i and chroot housekeeping jobs should be kept 365 days

== Improve existing tests

=== d-i_manual*

* svn:trunk/manual/po triggers the full build, should trigger language specific builds.
* svn:trunk/manual is all thats needed, not whole svn:trunk
* inform translators (and debian-boot for the package)

=== d-i_build*

* run scripts/digress/ ?
* bubulle wrote: "Another interesting target would be d-i builds *including non uploaded packages* (something like "d-i from git repositories" images). That would in some way require to create a quite specific image, with all udebs (while netboot only has udebs needed before one gets a working network setup).
* build branches? (which?)
* inform debian-boot@ ?

=== chroot-installation_*

* inform debian-devel@
* "Hash Sum Mismatch" problem with squid, see http://jenkins.debian.net/job/chroot-installation_squeeze_install_developer_upgrade_to_wheezy/13/console
** pere says this is supposed to be fixed in squid3
* chroot-installation: only trigger (=really run) jobs if available+used packages have changed (save packages in db and compare)

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<pabs> h01ger: how about all of the blends?
<h01ger> pabs, if you could give me concrete (meta-)package names to install, that would be great+very helpful
<h01ger> for ^education* and ^debian-edu* i can find them myself
<pabs> h01ger: hmm, doesn't seem to be easy to find that list, but here are a few: ezgo-* med-* science-* junior-* gis-*
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=== webchecks*

* inform debian-www@

=== g-i-installation_*:

more languages

* babelbox.git has a nice langlist
* $name-preseed.base -> sed .cfg (LANG)
* for edu: pick LANG from predefined list at random - if last build was not successful or unstable fall back to English
* for d-i: create jobs for something like Tamil, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, some Arabic and maybe some more Indian languages would be sufficient
** these jobs would not need to do an install, just booting them in rescue mode is probably enough

general

* test kfreebsd
* test moar images: debian wheezy+sid cd and dvd images too and use lxde cd for installing lxde + etc
* use jigdo to download images - but no edu jigdo images.
* still havent got http://www.os-autoinst.org/ out of my mind

=== Test Debian live

* daily build from sid
* test live images from http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/current-next and .../current

== Add more tests

=== Test more Debian Edu related things

* manual - by language and full
* build a cd-image from all edu packages (even (and especially) UNRELEASED ones and do a g-i-installation test with it
** this probably better is done after the edu packages has been switched to git and when edu cd are (also?) build on pettersson.d.o
** also because it's probably better to do this with unmodified d-i first :-)
* test minimal and sugar profile, as well as gnome and lxde

=== Test tasks:

* test installations with (at least) more language tasks enabled, though tasksel doesn't work like this:

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<h01ger> how do i install a task outside d-i?
<h01ger> what interesting tasks are there?
<jcristau> tasksel install <task>
<daemonkeeper> h01ger:  http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/tasksel
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Help explaining how to test tasks (ie all the language tasks) very much welcome!

=== Tests using autopkgtest

* see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomatedTesting and http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/auto-pkg-test.html 
* finding packages with autopkgtests: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2012/11/msg00012.html
** this only lists a few packages, so a very first test could be to compare this list against this: `wget -q http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/unstable/main/Contents-source.gz -O- | zgrep -m1 -E '^debian/tests/control\s'`, make a job out of it and make it UNSTABLE if the diff is non-zero. And as a second step, run those tests...
* also see http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/
* also from that thread on debian-qa@l.d.o:
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Subject: Re: automated tests or builds for d-i
From: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>

  Stefano Zacchiroli [2012-11-04 14:51 +0100]:
> AFAIK in Ubuntu they've glue code that hooks autopkgtest tests into
> jenkins. I don't know where the code is or how Ubuntu-specific it is,
> but it is worth investigating. It'd be awesome to make it as
> distro-agnostic as possible, enabling all derivatives to run their own
> autopkgtest tests: it'd be a nice way to spot regressions introduced by
> distro-specific patches and more.

Indeed, our goal is to get a lot more of them. We currently have some
20 [1], but at the last UDS we had a little competition which got us
another 11 [2], which we'll upload and forward to Debian in the next
days.

Our scripts for creating VMs, running the tests in those, and the
Jenkins integration are in "bzr branch lp:auto-package-testing", which
you can browse at [3]. In the doc/ directory there is documentation
how the Jenkins integration works. I can't say much about it I'm
afraid, as I have never touched a Jenkins job so far; this has been
created by Jean-Baptiste Lallement (in CC:); he's on holiday for the
next week, though.

Please let me know if this is useful. I can poke at the jobs in our
actual Jenkins instance (jenkins.qa.u.c. is just a readonly public
mirror) if you need to know something specific, but we try to avoid
having any manual job configuration; these are all autogenerated
through scripts through python-jenkins.

Martin

[1] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Quantal/view/AutoPkg%20Test/
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.status%3Alist=FIXRELEASED&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.tag=udstestcompetition
[3] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~auto-package-testing-dev/auto-package-testing/trunk
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=== Test co-installability

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<jwilk> Install everything with priority >= optional? These packages are not supposed to conflict with each other. </wishful-thinking>
<h01ger> jwilk, there are tools to detect these package sets just based on debian/control information. no need to test this every day by installing them :)
<h01ger> running these tools daily OTOH...
<h01ger> http://coinst.irill.org/
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