[Testing] Some progress on infrastructure.

[Grig Gheorghiu]

--- Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:

> Grig,
> 
> I spent this afternoon reading through the buildbot manual and it
> looks
> like it might be adaptable to the shape of my needs. Here's how I
> intend
> to begin:
> 
> 1) Since I expect rapid growth in the quantity and diversity of
>    measurements being made and configurations being analyzed, an
>    architecture like that of pybots seems appropriate. Therefore, I'd
>    like to set up just the minimal buildbot configuration required to
>    distribute the checking of exactly two assertions in response to
>    build completion. 
> 
>    In the future, I'll be happy to investigate running our OS image
>    build tools under buildbot for even better status reporting,
>    change/failure correlation, and performance.


Sure -- ideally we'd need 2 machines to start with: one to act as the
buildbot master, and one to act as a buildbot slave. Let me know if you
have them, or if we need to ask for volunteers to run them.

> 
> 2) The assertions I want to check are that 
> 
>    * /home/olpc is owned by olpc/olpc with mode 0775 
>    * /usr/share/activities/*/build_index.html is writable by group
> olpc
> 
>    These properties can be checked directly on the filesystem
> tarball;
>    no fancy setup, teardown, or environment is necessary to collect
> or
>    to interpret the results.
> 
>    In the future, I will clearly want to check properties that are
>    harder to measure. 

This should be easy to achieve.

> 
> 3) Once I get this far, it will hopefully be obvious how to proceed
>    further.
> 

I hope so too.

Grig