[ros-release] Most of previous pre-release tests have failed

[Tully Foote]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>wrote:

> With the change in servers recently I've just identified an issue with
> different memory usages between servers that is causing complete failures.
>

We updated the scripts and the prerelease jobs no longer run out of memory.
I've tested a few of the recent failures now pass:
http://jenkins.ros.org/job/prerelease_groovy_erratic_robot_precise_amd64/

Tully



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> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Isaac Isao Saito <130s at lateeye.net>wrote:
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>>> Happy Friday ROS-Release,
>>>
>>> I'm afraid I've not yet gotten the idea of ROS pre-release. One thing
>>> is, what does the failure of the majority of previous prerelease tests
>>> mean?
>>> http://jenkins.ros.org/view/Prerelease/
>>> Do maintainers fix on their upstrem repositories after getting
>>> pre-release error, and release w/o pre-release?
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> Unfortunately at the moment we don't have completely clean prereleases so
> most things will cause failures.  Part of that is we don't have a clear
> line for how to scope prereleases so they build everything downstream.  The
> important thing to do is look through the errors and confirm that your
> release does not create new ones.
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>> Not sure what others do. I like to run the "devel" pre-release on the
>> source repo before using bloom-release. I usually skip the "latest" option,
>> which uses the release repo, instead.
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>> I would be interested to know what different tests those options actually
>> perform.
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> They do the same thing, except that they have a different source of the
> code.
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> Tully
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>> --
>>  joq
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