[Rock-dev] Help needed: improve jenkins error reporting

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On 01/13/2012 12:19 PM, Alexander Duda wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:54 +0100, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
>> On 01/12/2012 05:23 PM, Alexander Duda wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 15:21 +0100, Janosch Machowinski wrote:
>>>> Might it perhaps allready help to given an
>>>> retry option to autoproj. What I mean is
>>>> in case of an checkout error try to check out
>>>> multiple times...
>>>> Greetings
>>>>        Janosch
>>>>
>>>> P.S.: Yes I know, this is bad behavior as it generates even more load on the
>>>> server etc.
>> Not going to help:
>>
>> - from my experience, when svn.pointclouds.org is down, it is really
>>     down ... trying 10 times is not gonna make it better.
>> - failed checkouts on gitorious happens very very rarely since there
>>     is the HTTP fallback.
>> - retrying when autobuild / autoproj has a bug is definitely not
>>     gonna help.
>>
>>> We could also use a proxy server which might be easier to set up than
>>> modifying autoproj.
>> What would the proxy server do ?
>
> Caching all external data which are not hosted on gitorious.org
> and only updates once a day if it fails it will keep the old data.
To me, replacing a can-fail server maintained by other people by a 
can-fail server that we have to maintain is not such a good idea. 
Moreover, it would require the builds on jenkins to use different 
overrides that the real build don't have, thus negating the testing effect.
-- 
Sylvain Joyeux (Dr.Ing.)
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