> On 11 Nov. 2016, at 10:10 am, Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org> wrote: > > On 11/10/2016 04:29 PM, Gavin McDonald wrote: >>> 2) I would encourage more projects to manage their Jenkins >>> configurations in version control, either by using a Jenkinsfile or >>> the Job DSL plugin, it makes it much simpler to maintain your >>> configuration in time and easier to collaborate on. > > We're using DSL internally and I am planning on setting up the Cassandra > jobs to DSL - works really well. > >> Thats a good idea. (In which case you’ll be able to compare the >> changes made with your svn copy and adjust as needed?) > > Unfortunately not easily. Any config edit or `sed` updates of the > config.xml will just get overwritten by DSL, unless someone is notified > to go look in time to see what was changed and get it into the DSL VCS. >
Thanks, handy to know. > (The `sed` of 's/docker/ubunt/' sort of broke things.. There are some > jobs in the queue now with nowhere to run.) 12 builds affected, thanks for pointing it out, now fixed. As asn aside, I use a Jenkins plugin to make the edits, not ‘sed’. :) > > I had planned to update the banners on the jobs that they were using DSL > with a link to the repository, to hopefully let people know that any > hand edits are only temporary. I'm not really sure of a better way, but > I'm up for ideas. I dont have any better ideas currently. My recent hammer action is a one off, we may check again in 6 months or so but I can’t imagine we would need to do this again for a long time. Gav… > > -- > Kind regards, > Michael >
