I wanted to make everyone aware of some changes happening to the
jenkins enviroment that you typically encounter when you propose a
merge to a core apps project.
As you know there have been some growing pains as we've tried to
develop, keep the tests all green and passing, and grow out the build
enviroment. Thank you for your help and feedback throughout the
process. We've had some rough patches, but it's paying off. The apps
look amazing, and they have come a LONG way in being stable, runnable
and usable. Good work everyone. That said, we've been seeing some
regressions in the lab and no doubt you may have run into issues
during your merges where jenkins failed your tests because of changes
happening in the sdk, etc. We want to solve those.
So in an effort to keep things synced up and prevent regressions in
the dashboard, the CI team is changing the core apps jenkins builds.
All tests and merges will use the latest version of the SDK always.
The tests will also run against the latest version of the SDK. What
this means is no more surprises about toolbar changes, or swiping to
delete, or activity indicator issues, etc. Any potential issues like
this will now show up immeadiately when you try and merge your changes.
Now, because the tests are currently looking at and using the archive
version of the SDK, there are some gaps or differences that need to be
fixed so we can move forward. The illustrious Francis has run all of
the core apps against the latest SDK to show up what is causing tests
(and therefore your app) to fail. I'd like to request special
attention be paid to these issues so we can close them, get them
merged and move on. You can see the raw output of his work here:
http://91.189.93.70:8080/job/generic-mediumtests-sdk/
I'll be opening bugs for each of these and assigning a critical
proirity to them -- look for them to land in your project soon. This
will be my priority to help solve next week. I'm here for you! If you
need help fixing any of the issues, give me a shout on IRC, as
balloons. Francis, fginther, is also availible if you find jenkins
giving you trouble when it shouldn't. Thanks again for all of your help!
To a more sane testing future of green,
Nicholas
