[webkit-qt] Qt Mountain Lion Release bot turning off (was: QtWebKit trunk development after 5.0 release - questions)

Wed Mar 20 12:12:16 PDT 2013

Great Zeno!

I'll ask Ossy on how this could be done and we can do this move next week.

Thanks,
Rafael

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Zeno Albisser <zeno at webkit.org> wrote:

> Hi Rafael,
>
> Thanks a lot for maintaining the buildbot until now!
>
> I do have a Qt WK2 Mountain Lion buildbot running for a while already.
> It is currently connected to http://build.webkit.sed.hu/ and is mainly
> compiling and running some WebGL pixel tests.
> Maybe we could move that one over to build.webkit.org to replace your
> current buildbot.
> If you have a few minutes, maybe we could look into that next week?
>
> Zeno
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Rafael Brandao <rafael.lobo at openbossa.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello QtWebKittens,
>>
>> We will turn off the Qt Mountain Lion Release buildbot soon, since INdT
>> is now focused
>> on other projects and we don't have the man power needed to properly
>> maintain the bot.
>>
>> I'm planning to do this over the next week. It should be easy to
>> reactivate it, so I hope someone else
>> can keep up with this effort.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  Rafael
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:32 PM, "Árvai, Zoltán" <zarvai at inf.u-szeged.hu>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi QtWebKit hackers,
>>>
>>> we started upgrading QtWebKit buildbots and EWS bots
>>> today to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS + GStreamer 1.0 + Qt 5.0.1 .
>>>
>>> Using GStreamer 1.0 will be mandatory soon, see this mail for details:
>>> https://lists.webkit.org/**pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-**
>>> January/023246.html<https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-January/023246.html>
>>> (You can easily install GStreamer 1.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 - see
>>>  https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/**QtWebKitGardening<https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitGardening>for details)
>>>
>>> It is a high time to review which bots we still need, which bots we
>>> don't need anymore. Or do we need new bots with different configuration?
>>>
>>> Currently we have the following bots:
>>>
>>> build.webkit.org
>>> =================
>>>
>>> - Qt Linux Release - 32 bit WK1 only build + layout tests + API tests
>>> - Qt Linux Release minimal - 32 bit WK1 only build
>>>   (good for catching broken ifdef guards)
>>> - Qt Windows 32-bit Release - WK1/WK2 build
>>>   (MS Win Server 2008 R2, MS Visual Studio 2010 Express)
>>>
>>> performance bots:
>>> ------------------
>>> - Qt Linux 64-bit Release (Perf) - WK1 only build and perf tests
>>> - Qt Linux 64-bit Release (WebKit2 Perf) - WK2 build and perf tests
>>>
>>> The performance results are collected by perf-o-matic server -
>>> http://webkit-perf.appspot.com , but this tool is not user friendly
>>> to catch performance regressions, because you have to select tests
>>> one by one and check them manually. Nowadays they collect performance
>>> results, but in these circumstances we need someone who actively checks
>>> them. Do we want to appoint someone, or reuse these resources for more
>>> important tasks?
>>>
>>> offline bots:
>>> --------------
>>> - Qt Linux ARMv7 Release - It is offline, because we have a same
>>>   bot on build.webkit.sed.hu to build ARM binaries for the tester bot.
>>>
>>> - Qt Windows 32-bit Debug - We used it when cross compiling on Linux was
>>>   possible with MinGW (with Qt 4.8). But now the Windows build works
>>>   with MSVC on native Windows and we don't have more Windows hardware.
>>>
>>> These bots were not used for a long time. We suggest to
>>> delete them completely from build.webkit.org waterfall.
>>> What do you think about it?
>>>
>>> bots maintained by the community:
>>> ------------------------------**----
>>> - Qt Linux MIPS32R2 LE Release
>>> - Qt Linux SH4 Release
>>> - Qt Mountain Lion Release - maintained by INdT
>>>   (Is INdT still intereseted in QtWebKit on Mac?)
>>>
>>>
>>> build.webkit.sed.hu
>>> ====================
>>> - x86-64 Linux Qt Release - 64 bit WK1 only build + layout/API tests
>>> - x86-64 Linux Qt Debug - 64 bit WK1 only build + layout/API tests
>>> - x86-64 Linux Qt Release WebKit2 (Amazon EC2) -
>>>       64 bit build + WK2 layout/API tests
>>> - x86-64 Linux Qt Release WebKit2 (Pixel Tests)
>>>       64 bit build + WK2 UI process side pixel tests
>>> - x86-32 Linux Qt Release WebKit2
>>>       32 bit build + WK2 layout/API tests
>>> - x86-64 Mountain Lion Qt Release(WebGL Tester)(maintained by zalbisser)
>>>       64 bit build + fast/canvas/webgl WK2 tests + API tests
>>> - x86-32 Linux Qt Release NRWT
>>>       32 bit WK1 only builder + layout tests with 4 parallel threads
>>>   (It is an experimental bot, because parallel testing is very flakey,
>>>    on Qt, see https://bugs.webkit.org/show_**bug.cgi?id=77730<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77730>and
>>>    https://bugs.webkit.org/show_**bug.cgi?id=106218<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106218>for details.)
>>> - ARMv7 Linux Qt5 Release (Build) - WK1 only build for ARM traditional
>>>   platform (ARM instruction set, not Thumb2)
>>> - ARMv7 Linux Qt5 Release (Test) - JSC+layout tests on a Panda board
>>> - x86-32 Linux Qt Debug - 32 bit WK1 only build + layout/API tests
>>>
>>> Bots for QtWebKit 2.3 (used by carewolf)
>>> ------------------------------**-----------
>>> - QtWebKit2.3-branch x86-32 Linux Release
>>> - QtWebKit2.3-staging-branch x86-32 Linux Release
>>>
>>> How long do you need to run these bots? After we upgrade the OS to
>>> Ubuntu 12.04 they might not work properly anymore. To take notice
>>> of coming 2.3 relase we might be able to migrate them to a virtual
>>> machine has same environment as the actual one. (Debian Squeeze, Qt 4.8)
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> We hope we will finish the upgrade this week, you can see the
>>> status here: https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/**QtWebKitBuildBots<https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitBuildBots>
>>>
>>> On behalf of Szeged team,
>>>     Ádám Kallai (kadam) and Zoltán Árvai (azbest_hu)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/21/2013 05:02 PM, Osztrogonac Csaba wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Qt 5.0 was released a month ago. And I have two major questions
>>>> about the future of the QtWebKit trunk (svn.webkit.org) development.
>>>>
>>>> Question no 1:
>>>> ---------------
>>>>
>>>> There is a plan about migration from GStreamer 0.1 to 1.0:
>>>> [webkit-dev] PSA: Migration plan to GStreamer 1.x
>>>> http://lists.webkit.org/**pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-**
>>>> January/023244.html<http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-January/023244.html>
>>>> ( https://bugs.webkit.org/show_**bug.cgi?id=106085<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106085>)
>>>>
>>>> Now we have Debian Squeeze, Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 buildbots too, but
>>>> installing GStreamer 1.0 to Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu 11.10 is a little
>>>> bit complex. It is possible, but installing a meta package from a PPA
>>>> on Ubuntu 12.04 is much more simpler.
>>>>
>>>> That's why I propose switching QtWebKit buildbots to Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS)
>>>> and dropping trunk buildbot support for older distros. (Or should we
>>>> upgrade to non-LTS, but newer Ubuntu 12.10? I haven't tested it yet.)
>>>>
>>>> Any opinions/objections?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Question no 2:
>>>> ---------------
>>>>
>>>> Which Qt version / revision should we use for WebKit trunk?
>>>>
>>>> We always use build-qt5.sh script to build Qt for WebKit trunk to reduce
>>>> source incompatible changes and make it simple to have same environment
>>>> to reproduce bugs, etc. ( https://github.com/ossy-**szeged/qt5-tools<https://github.com/ossy-szeged/qt5-tools>)
>>>>
>>>> But now we are pinned on a very old, pre Qt 5.0 revision:
>>>> 8d77ff1ef2422259dd6baed5cae981**5260e5bee2 (Tue Dec 4 11:54:27 2012
>>>> +0100)
>>>>
>>>> I think it's time to update Qt on the bots/developers machines.
>>>> So the question is which Qt revision should we update to?
>>>> - Qt 5.0.0 release version? (I tested it on Linux, and works fine)
>>>> - Or trunk qt5.git? (I haven't tested it yet.)
>>>>
>>>> And then should we do regular weekly/mothly update again?
>>>> Or should we do updates on demand only?
>>>>
>>>> br,
>>>> Ossy
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>>
>>
>>
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>> Rafael Brandao @ INdT
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