That sounds like a good feature.
repo for that.
I can't promise that it will be addressed soonish but it would be good to keep track of the idea.
>
> It would be incredibly useful to be able to specify a pre-release version on the web page <http://prerelease.ros.org/create_job/hydro> as you make a test. Default value could be supplied from
> source.yaml <https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/hydro>. Right now I have to pull request if I want to test a different branch. Is it necessary to have a man in the middle for the process of
> specifying a version for a prerelease test?
>
> Daniel.
>
> On 2 October 2013 11:50, Daniel Stonier <d.stonier@gmail.com <mailto:d.stonier@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On 2 October 2013 10:44, Dirk Thomas <dthomas@osrfoundation.org <mailto:dthomas@osrfoundation.org>> wrote:
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> On 01.10.2013 18:31, Daniel Stonier wrote:
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> On 2 October 2013 03:37, Dirk Thomas <dthomas@osrfoundation.org <mailto:dthomas@osrfoundation.org> <mailto:dthomas@osrfoundation.__org <mailto:dthomas@osrfoundation.org>>> wrote:
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> On 01.10.2013 00:28, Daniel Stonier wrote:
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> On 1 October 2013 04:55, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com> <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com>> <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com
> <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com> <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com>>>__> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote@osrfoundation.org <mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation.org> <mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation.__org <mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation.org>>
> <mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation. <mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation.>____org <mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation.__org <mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation.org>>>> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Isaac Isao Saito <130s@lateeye.net <mailto:130s@lateeye.net> <mailto:130s@lateeye.net <mailto:130s@lateeye.net>> <mailto:130s@lateeye.net
> <mailto:130s@lateeye.net> <mailto:130s@lateeye.net <mailto:130s@lateeye.net>>>> wrote:
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> Now I also see some pre-releases pass w/o failures. Thanks Tully!
>
> Let me ask one follow-up question regarding what Jack said;
>
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com> <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com>>
> <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com> <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com <mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com>>>__> wrote:
> > I like to run the "devel" pre-release on the source repo before using bloom-release.
>
> Is there a ways to run the pre-release test on ROS' jenkins against
> source repo (I know local pre-release is possible as in the wiki#1)?
>
> #1 http://wiki.ros.org/bloom/____Tutorials/PrereleaseTest#____Locally <http://wiki.ros.org/bloom/__Tutorials/PrereleaseTest#__Locally>
> <http://wiki.ros.org/bloom/__Tutorials/PrereleaseTest#__Locally <http://wiki.ros.org/bloom/Tutorials/PrereleaseTest#Locally>>
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> That link uses the release repo. The devel test can come before all that.
>
> That's what a devel prerelease is. The devel test is against the source as defined in source.yaml using key matching against release.yaml. The latest and version
> numbered prereleases go
> against the release repo tags.
>
>
> We've been struggling with this for a bit now. Could sit down and spend a couple of hours testing the process, but would be far easier to pick some brains here.
>
> Is the devel test is against the tag identified by the version key in release.yaml? If that is true, the workflow for pre-releases would still seem awkward to me.
>
> Daniel.
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>
>
> As mentioned by Tully and Jack in the last emails: the devel tests use the source repos defined in https://github.com/ros/____rosdistro/blob/master/hydro/____source.yaml
> <https://github.com/ros/__rosdistro/blob/master/hydro/__source.yaml>
> <https://github.com/ros/__rosdistro/blob/master/hydro/__source.yaml <https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/hydro/source.yaml>>.
>
>
> I have also update the wiki page which describes the prereleases and devel jobs:
> http://wiki.ros.org/____regression_tests <http://wiki.ros.org/__regression_tests> <http://wiki.ros.org/__regression_tests <http://wiki.ros.org/regression_tests>>
>
>
> - Dirk
>
> Ok, feeling like quite a dunderhead here. So decided to do some testing and here's what I can conclude about the devel prerelease along with some questions:
>
>
> You should not need to conclude about what prereleases do.
> If the description (http://wiki.ros.org/__regression_tests <http://wiki.ros.org/regression_tests>) is not sufficient please provide feedback what needs clarfication then we can update the wiki
> page.
>
>
> * It's downloading a rosinstall file generated with the source repo url and version key branch.
> * Not all entries in source.yaml <https://github.com/ros/__rosdistro/blob/master/hydro/__source.yaml <https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/hydro/source.yaml>> have a version key.
> o I expect this means it downloads the default branch for the repository.
>
>
> That is correct.
> I added that clarification to the wiki page: http://wiki.ros.org/__regression_tests?action=diff <http://wiki.ros.org/regression_tests?action=diff>
>
>
> o This is probably the cause of the confusion we've had trying to work out what pre-releases are actually building.
> * Why do some have a version key and some don't? How is it automatically added?
>
>
> Nothing happens automatically for that.
> Whatever a maintainer puts into that file will be used: a branch name, a tag name or nothing which implies the default branch.
>
>
> Ok, crystal now. I was wondering if source.yaml shouldn't be touched (I can't remember doing any pull requests to source.yaml, just to release.yaml, so something must be auto-generating the
> initial footprint there).
>
> Thanks - I'll pass on the collective wisdom to our group.
>
>
> Tully's comment 'using key matching against release.yaml' threw me in the previous email. I'm not sure what that is imparting.
>
>
> Tully referes to the fact that there is no relation between a release.yaml and source.yaml file.
> When selecting a repo the prerelease website just assumes that the repository name is the same in both both.
> That should be the case but is not strictly enforced anywhere.
>
> - Dirk
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