[yocto] [RFC] Toaster integration with Jenkins

[Anders Darander]

Hi,

* Barros Pena, Belen <belen.barros.pena at intel.com> [150330 19:48]:
> We are considering working on integrating Toaster with Jenkins as part of
> the next Yocto Project release. Our thinking so far is collected in this
> Bugzilla feature:

> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7527

Ah, sounds really interesting. I've recently been thinking about how I
should be able to benefit from toaster, as we're running out automated
builds using Jenkins.

> Any thoughts? Are we missing something? Are we going about it in a
> completely wrong way?

Sounds quite good to me.

If there's some project configuration that needs to be done in Toaster,
I'd appreciate if as much as possible could be retrieved from our
current Jenkins setup (i.e. exported from the Jenkins plugin to
Toaster). (Not least as we're running a couple of scripts to source the
environment and handling some extra configurations needed; thus I'd
assume we couldn't just take the freestyle Jenkins project talked about
in b) of Alexandru 's first comment in #YOCTO-7527.

I don't know if this is the right thread but a couple of other things
that we really would need in order to fully be able to utilize this.

1) Some way of getting the built git branch shown in toaster. (As we
discussed on YPDD in Düsseldorf together with Axis). We're building
master and release branches for the same machine and image.

2) In the proposed bug, would toaser be able to recieve and handle
toaster/build logs from different YP releases? Normally we've at least
one active release branch, and possibly a master (or master-next) branch
that's going to the next YP release. If possible, I'd like to visualize
all this in the same Toaster instance.

Apart from that, I think this is really interesting!

Cheers,
Anders

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Anders Darander
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB