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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 October 2014 21:17, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Some background info:
> I was allowed by Ajo to play around on the Jenkins build server [1] to
> add automatic building of the doxygen documatation for the purpose of
> having it online and always up to date. I have dumped the links to
> theese three documentaions, the doxygen-docs, dev-docs and
> doxygen-python make targets on [2] under the "Developer documentation"
> section. That is probably not the best place to put them, but none the
> less where they are linked right now. I talked with Ajo about copying
> them to somewhere on dev.kicad-pcb.org to get a shorter and easier to
> remember URL.
>
> Now regarding the patch:
> After I got familiar with Jenkins I also made it actually build the
> whole kicad, not just _pcbnew as the kicad-qa job did. In that process
> I found that the python qa test script did not return anything if it
> actually found errors in the unittests, which means that the Jenkins
> server did not know it failed -- hence no warning to the devs. To fix
> this I have made the attached patch, which catches the number of
> errors from the unittest and if there are errors returns the exit code
> 1, which will make Jenkins notice that the build failed. The error
> that was fixed in [5214] is not detected by Jenkins without this
> patch. So the according patch:
>
> Adds exit code to the qa test.py script if there are errors found in
> the qa unittests.
>
> Regards
> Nick Østergaard
>
> [1] http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/
> [2] http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+Documentation
> [5214] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/product/revision/5214
>

Thank-you very much Nick, Committed in 5223 with a very minor changes.

Best Regards,

Brian.