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

[Isaac Isao Saito]

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 at 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

Thanks,
Isaac

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>
> wrote:
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>> With the change in servers recently I've just identified an issue with
>> different memory usages between servers that is causing complete failures.
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> 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/
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> 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:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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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