Re: New Windows Tinderbox Needed

Hey Luke,

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Luke Benes <lukebenes@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Currently all Windows tinderboxes that generated the daily builds are
> down: @39, @42, and @62
>
> Fortunately, I had the time this week to roll my own builds and in the
> process discovered 2 build breaking commits [1] [2], while another user
> found a 3rd one [3].  If the 3 win tinderboxes were up, the cause of these
> build breaking commits would be obvious to anyone monitoring the tinderbox
> status page.

Note that we still have Windows Tinderbox builds.
https://ci.libreoffice.org/ lists the Windows tinderbox builds done by tb72
and tb73. We will always have some platform related problems (e.g. compiler
or some specific system conditions) that will slip through our normal
tinderbox builds.



> Besides QA needing daily builds,  another advantage to having working
> tinderboxes is that developers don't need to rely on reports to verify that
> their fixes. For example Caolan was in the dark after his tried this 2nd
> attempt at a blind fix[4].

Developers don't need tinderboxes for getting feedback about their fixes.
Everything that will usually be discovered by one of the tinderbox will
also be covered by our gerrit buildbots and the Windows tinderboxes
configured in jenkins. The tinderbox page that you use is our old CI page
with the non-TDF infra managed builds.


> I have neither the computing resources nor time to constantly run builds
> to find breaking commits. Can TDF please put some resources towards this
> problem?  As you can see from the status page [5] the Linux tinderboxes are
> in great shape, but the Windows boxes need some attention.


As can be seen by our jenkins instance this is already handled. Of course
the availability of daily windows builds is another point.

Regards,
Markus


> -Luke
>
>
>
> [1] http://document-foundation-mail-archive.969070.n3.nabble.
> com/64-bit-Windows-build-failure-this-pointer-for-
> member-may-not-be-aligned-8-as-expected-by-the-construr-td4244874.html
>
> [2] http://document-foundation-mail-archive.969070.n3.nabble.
> com/Windows-Debug-builds-failure-DbgGUIInitSolarMutexCheck-
> identifier-not-found-td4245003.html
>
> [3] http://document-foundation-mail-archive.969070.n3.nabble.
> com/Segmentation-fault-when-compiling-td4245102.html
>
> [4] http://document-foundation-mail-archive.969070.n3.nabble.
> com/64-bit-Windows-build-failure-this-pointer-for-
> member-may-not-be-aligned-8-as-expected-by-the-construr-
> td4244874.html#a4245284
>
> [5] https://tinderbox.libreoffice.org/MASTER/status.html
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