[ros-users] Software Status Reporting and Custom Builds

[Thibault Kruse]

On 06.09.2013 19:04, Jose Luis Rivero wrote:
> IMHO: there are good starting points: nice tools (jenkins, travis, 
> coverall, ...) and a central building farm (jenkins.ros.org). Thinking 
> on having that information integrated into ros wiki sounds feasible to 
> me.
I'd like to stress again that for any judgement on feasibility, it is 
best to check what other projects achieved to do who have to manage a 
lot of packages.
Boost: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/summary.html
QT: http://qt-project.org/wiki/CI_Overview
KDE: http://build.kde.org/
Gnome: https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Raring/view/JHBuild%20Gnome/

If those did not manage to set up better metrics / did not see the 
value, we should probably follow their lead.

Obviously the current way to go in distributed OpenSource projects is to 
use github or something similar, from which any maintainer can go on to 
use other continuous integration sites. The ROS wiki already points to 
github. So anyone who already found a wiki page of a package he cares 
about is just one click away from github, where each maintainer can use 
travis or any of the other services that currently pop up like mushrooms 
to indicate build status, using tags in their README.md. There is IMO 
very little reason why the ROS wiki should try to duplicate this good 
effort that takes place around github.

And given William's latest bit of advice on how to use the Jenkins 
server, test reports can also be found here:
http://jenkins.ros.org/search/?q=devel&max=120
As an example this one:
http://jenkins.ros.org/job/devel-hydro-actionlib/

So are we now only talking about conditionally adding a URL to a package 
wiki page if the webpage 
http://jenkins.ros.org/job/devel-<distroname>-<packagename> exists?

regards,
   Thibault