About Buildbot

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Overview

The current state of the MariaDB trees with respect to build or test failures is always available from the Buildbot setup page.

The BuildBot setup polls the Launchpad trees every 5 minutes for changes. Whenever a new push is found in one of our trees, the new code is compiled and run through the test suite.

If all platforms are green after this, everything is good. If not, it means there is a problem with the push, and someone needs to look into it ASAP. If it was your push, then the someone who needs to look at it is you!

BuildBot is a generic, GPL'ed program providing a continuous integration test framework. For more information on BuildBot, see the the BuildBot project homepage.

Volunteering to Run a Build Slave

Many of our build hosts are run by community members, and we are always looking for additional volunteers to help us cover additional platforms or build options in BuildBot.

If you are able to provide a spare machine for this purpose, your help is greatly appreciated! This is a good way to get involved without having to spend a lot of time on it. Get started by writing an email to 'maria-developers (at) lists.launchpad.net' with an offer to run a BuildBot slave.

Setting up the Slave BuildBot

See buildbot-setup.

Pausing mysql-test-run.pl

Sometimes you need to work when your computer is busy running tests for buildbot. We've added a new feature to the mysql-test-run.pl script which allows you to stop it temporarily so you can use your computer and then restart the tests when you're ready.

To do this, define the environment variable "MTR_STOP_FILE". Whenever the file specified by this environment variable exists, the mysql-test-run.pl script will stop as soon as it is able to do so (i.e. it won't stop immediately). When the file is removed, the mysql-test-run.pl script will continue from where it left off.

If you plan on using this feature you should also set the "MTR_STOP_KEEP_ALIVE" environment variable with a value of 120. This will make the script print messages to buildbot every 2 minutes which will prevent a timeout.

Database with Test Results

Buildbot saves the results of test runs in a database, to be used for enhanced reporting on web pages without need to change the Buildbot code, and for data mining when investigating test failures.

The database schema is documented under Buildbot Database Schema. The schema is likely to evolve as we gradually add more kinds of information.

For now, the data is not externally available. But the plan is to set up a slave database to replicate the data, and provide access (eg. remote database accounts) to members of the community with interesting ideas about how to present or mine this data, or who are just curious to play with it. If anyone has an interest in this, or wants to volunteer a slave host for this purpose, please send a mail to maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net. The more people show interest in this, the faster it is likely to happen!

Reports

We are developing new reports fed off the test results in the database. These reports will be located here. The first report is the Cross Reference report. This report allows all test failures to be searched.

Buildbot Maintenance

Here is some information on how our Buildbot installation is set up and maintained:

  • The configuration file is included in the Tools for MariaDB repository.
  • The building and testing of binary packages is documented on the package-testing-with-buildbot-and-kvm page.
  • We developed a small tool, runvm, which is used to do some of the builds inside a virtual machine, mostly to test builds of binary packages.
  • The BuildBot Development page describes how we developed some of the enhancements to BuildBot that we use and have contributed upstream.

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