[yocto] RFC: Web UI design for bitbake

[Wang, Shane]

Samuel Stirtzel wrote on 2011-12-20:

> 2011/12/20 Wang, Shane <shane.wang at intel.com>:
>
> It sounds like you want to build it all from scratch, quite a lot of
> work to build a fully featured web build system,
> in this case compatibility to other systems would be nice.
> 
> 
> For web builds with bitbake, Jenkins-CI (a fork of the continuous
> integration system Hudson) [1] could be worth a look,
> it is more than just a build tool.
> 
> There is also Autobuilder, but I guess for end users it is too much
> configuration effort?
> Jenkins-CI was very easy to setup and with a plug-in it could be as
> simple as pointing the web-UI to the Bitbake path,
> managing cluster/cloud/slave-pc entities is easy too.
> 
> Just my 0.02 cents in the case that you didn't already cast it in concrete.
> IMHO it looks like Jenkins and the concept-pdf are very similar,
> only difference seems to be: you want to invent it all by yourself?
> 
> 
> [1] Jenkins-CI : http://jenkins-ci.org/
>

Thanks for the feedbacks. We considered autobuilder previously. But they are similar but different.
Web HOB is going to provide a tool to deeply customize images from browsers.
At this point, autobuilder is weaker.

We will have a look at your suggestions first.

--
Shane