+1. Thanks for taking care of this.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Szehon Ho <sze...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This week the machine running Hive builds at > http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Hive/? ran out of space, so new > jobs like Precommit tests stopped. Its still not resolved there, there was > another email today on Bigtop list, but there's very few people with root > access to that host, and they still haven't responded. > > I chatted with Brock, he has also seen various issues with Bigtop jenkins > in the past, so I am thinking to move the Jenkins jobs to the PTest master > itself, where some PMC already have access and can admin if needed. > Currently I am hosting the pre-commit Jenkins job on my own EC2 instance > as stop-gap. > > Other advantages of hosting our own Jenkins: > 1. No need to wait for other Bigtop jobs to run. > 2. Bigtop is using a version of Jenkins that doesnt show parameters like > JIRA number for queued jobs, so impossible to tell whether a patch got > picked up and where it is in queue. > 3. Eliminate network hop from Bigtop box to our PTest master. > > The disadvantage is: > 1. We don't have much experience doing Jenkins admin, but it doesn't look > too bad. Mostly, restart if there's issue and clean up if out of space. > > I wonder what people think, and if there's any objections to this? If not, > I'll try setting up this weekend. Then, there is some follow-up work, like > changing the Jenkins url's displayed in the test report. > > Thanks! > Szehon >
