Build farmer handoff 2018-01-03

[mikaelarguedas]

Buildfarm health

Nodes are healthy overall. This shift has been mostly about getting the machines ready for the Ardent release.

• dosa is back online with some workarounds to run with SIP enabled (prevent massive slow-down). Dosa is also now running the jenkins client as a service without significant performance hit.
• linux_slave_on_master has been taken offline as CPU spikes when building were preventing the masters proper functioning. We rolled out another node linux4 for now
• all nodes have been updated to the latest version of system packages and dependency before the release. Several packages got updated since preventing users to have ros2 working out-of-the-box from binaries (more information at 2017-12-02: Update nodes before release #74)
• all nodes can run jobs with OpenSplice

Outstanding issues

• Coverage job failing consistently (Coverage job failing since Dec 8 2017 #76)

Pending Tasks

• Roll-out lauchd configuration to mini1 and mini2 sequentially (Add info for configuring process supervision with launchd. ci#118)
• Investigate packet.net host issue (packet machine crash on "resource busy" #42)
• Investigate rogue process causing arm jobs to hang on exit (ARM jobs hanging #72)
• Support VS2017 (Update Windows nodes to Visual Studio 2017 #69)
• Upgrade eatable to Windows 10 (configure eatable as windows 10 machine #17)

Recurring tasks

• system and package (brew/chocolatey) updates on MacOS and Windows machines (see 2017-12-02: Update nodes before release #74)
• system update on linux nodes
• update the master node (Updating buildfarm linux hosts #66)

Test suite health

• Some tests are getting really flaky failing even on regular ci:
  • test_composition__rmw_fastrtps_cpp (timing out on all platforms)

[nuclearsandwich]

Upgrade eatable to Windows 10 (#17)

This is on my docket for Friday this week.

Roll-out lauchd configuration to mini1 and mini2 sequentially (ros2/ci#118)

I'm happy to do this rollout or assign it to the current build farmer.

[dirk-thomas]

Roll-out lauchd configuration to mini1 and mini2 sequentially (ros2/ci#118)

I'm happy to do this rollout or assign it to the current build farmer.

Please feel free to do it. I don't expect to have much time for build farmer related work.

[dirk-thomas]

• use comment in em ci#120: resolved differences between the configuration stored in this repo and the actual configuration on Jenkins
• detect CMake warnings without a filename:linenumber #73: detecting CMake warnings without a filename:linenumber
• Coverage job failing since Dec 8 2017 #76: fix coverage job
• Update Windows nodes to Visual Studio 2017 #69: Support VS2017, pending public Connext release, upstream fixes for Windows compiler warnings (see use Visual Studio 2017 ci#122)

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Closing obsolete tickets:

• OSX nightly debug failed cloning from GitHub on mini1 and mini2 #14
• rtiddsgen crashes sporadically on OSX #40
• rtiddsgen sometimes crashes with IO Error when building in parallel on linux #47
• New failing test: test_tutorial_set_and_get_parameters__rmw_fastrtps_cpp demos#143

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New tickets:

• test_composition__rmw_fastrtps_cpp failing across almost all jobs #80 test_composition__rmw_fastrtps_cpp

[dirk-thomas]

Closing in favor of #82.