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[Bjorn Tillenius <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:35:38AM +1300, Michael Hudson wrote:
> Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > next week I'd like us to get rid of the jscheck buildbot builder, and
> > instead run the Windmill tests in the normal devel and db-devel (and
> > later also production-devel) builders.
> > 
> > In order to do this, we need to update all the images. Michael, you did
> > set up the jscheck builder, right?>
> 
> Well, the LOSAs set it up at my instruction.
> 
> > Can you make sure that the LOSAs know
> > what needs to be added to the devel and db-devel images?
> 
> The only difference is installing a few more packages, I think.
> 
> > Also, someone needs to updated the images we use to run tests on EC2.
> > Who's responsible for that? Again I ask Michael, since you know what
> > needs to be done, and have updated those images in the past. But please
> > feel free to delegate to someone else :)
> 
> If the extra dependencies become part of
> launchpad-developer-dependencies in the ~launchpad PPA, then updating
> the EC2 image is really really easy.  And I think it would probably make
> updating the buildbot images easier too...

Yeah, I was a bit hesitant about adding it to
launchpad-developer-dependencies, since it's only used for testing on
non-developer machines, but it's worth adding it anyway, to make it
easier to update the images. And actually, after playing around with it
a bit, I definitly want to run the Windmill tests headless locally as
well. It's so much nicer not having Firefox pop up now and then when
running 'make jscheck'.


> > Oh, and I guess PQM will have to be updated as well, since we currently
> > run tests there for cherry picks, right?
> > 
> > Ideally the images should be updated on Monday, when PQM is open again.
> > I don't want to do it earlier, to avoid disrupting any possible rollout,
> > and I don't want it done much later, since we need to get started
> > running the tests early, so that we can fix any issues before the 3.1.12
> > rollout.
> 
> Monday sounds ambitious but doable.

Yeah, that's why I said 'ideally' :) I suspect it will take a bit longer
to get everything updated.

> If you can get
> launchpad-developer-dependencies updated, I can do the EC2 test images
> on my Monday -- drop me a mail.

You wouldn't happen to know which extra packages were installed to get
it to work? I'm assuming xvfb needs to be there. But what about firefox,
which packages where installed to get it to run? Plain 'firefox', or
something else?


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