[QA] Jenkins on steroid (kind of)

Thu Oct 31 14:21:53 UTC 2013

On Thursday, October 31, 2013, Antoine Musso wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After a few months, the Jenkins setup at Wikimedia is finally using a
> second slave to assist in running jobs.  It should give us some more
> horsepower and open the path to add more crazy validation jobs.
>
> The new host show up as 'lanthanum' and is a production machine as
> powerful as the current slave 'gallium'.
>
>
> I did most of the migration yesterday, directly in production which
> caused a few culprit during the European afternoon.  Sorry. It was worth
> the interruption, we now have more power.

Great news - thank you, Antoine!

> Next steps would be:
>  - have the browser tests to run on a Gerrit change
>  - generating documentation on each patchset to assist people editing
> our inline docs.
>  - automatic Debian packages (thanks to Azathoth)
>  - allowing multiple runs of a job in parallel
>

Sounds great (and I'm sure everyone has their favoured hobby-horse - mine
is the browser tests :-))!

J.

-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

jforrester at wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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