This might be the first I'm hearing of the tool. I'm aware of online ones like TravisCI, codeship .. etc. But for my purposes, a self-hosted solution was needed and jenkins is what I found at the time.
Are you aware of anyone using buildbot publicly? Does it do github build status commits .. etc? -Abraham V. On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 9:34:32 AM UTC+5:30, luisza14 wrote: > > Do you know buildbot ? > > http://buildbot.net/ > > > > El viernes, 8 de enero de 2016, Abraham Varricatt < > abraham....@googlemail.com <javascript:>> escribió: > > Hello everyone, > > I've attained some success in my endeavor and wanted to talk about it > (The following events take place over the past few days). > > The first thing I needed to do was rent out a cheap ubuntu server - I > got one from digitalocean. A requirement for jenkins is java. I decided to > go with Oracle's java-8. There were some instructions here, > > > http://www.liquidweb.com/kb/how-to-install-oracle-java-8-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts/ > > > > Basically, it was a matter of installing a PPA, doing an update and > running the java-8 installer. Then it was onto jenkins. I decided not to > bother with the one from Canonical and went straight for the official > stuff. Instructions here, > > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Ubuntu > > > > Installing was easy. Configuring it was a mess. Jenkins will let the > first person to access the web-interface perform configurations, and .. > well, I screwed it up. The end result was that I locked myself out of my > own jenkins server! This kind-of devastated me for some time. I REALLY > didn't want to restart from scratch and searched for some way to fix the > mess (I still had shell access to the system, just not web access). > Amusingly enough, it turns out that the scenario is common enough for the > jenkins devs to mention it on their wiki! Here, > > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Disable+security > > > > Finding my jenkins config file was not as straight-forward as I would > have liked, but in the end, I got things done. With jenkins up and running, > I decided to just try the instructions from the TDD book. Here's the link > to the online chapter, > > > http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754/ch20.html#_installing_jenkins > > > > This .. actually worked. It worked! I was able to initiate builds from > jenkins! > > The next step was to try and automate things, so that if I make a pull > request, jenkins would build and comment back on the request. For this, I > needed to use the 'github pull request builder plugin'. It was a lot more > difficult than I expected. At first, I tried following the instructions > here, > > http://www.theguild.nl/building-github-pull-requests-with-jenkins > > Not exactly helpful. I think the blog was written with an older version > of the suite in mind. I ended up making a few jenkins jobs - the lot didn't > work as I was hoping it would and in frustration, I deleted them all. > Around then, I discovered this, > > > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/GitHub+pull+request+builder+plugin > > > > Yes, the official jenkins wiki. Short story: it worked. You can now > point and laugh at my stupidity. But darn! I had to read those instructions > multiple times, compare them with what my jenkins instance was showing me > before, finally getting it to work. But it now does and I'm happy. :) > > Oh yeah - at some point, the whole 'jenkins bot needs access to repo' > really confused me. I actually transferred the repo between my github > account and my bot's account multiple times before deciding to make an > organization and giving everyone ownership rights. The idea of webhooks > also took me for a spin. I wanted to have github inform jenkins when to do > the builds, but the instructions I found assume you are running some kind > of cron-task. Not really what I like. That took awhile to figure out! > > To show-off, here's my jenkins server; > > http://128.199.74.212:8080/ > > > > And check out this (dummy) pull request, > > https://github.com/char-key/TDDwithPython/pull/1 > > > > This brings me to about .. 85% of what I wanted to setup. The last thing > I need to do, is get some build statistics running. I'm looking a the > django-jenkins package. Are there any similar options available? > > Hoping these mails help someone, > > Abraham V. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Django users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to django-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to django...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/cc3132b7-dcdd-43fb-9f91-de9627686d1b%40googlegroups.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > "La utopía sirve para caminar" Fernando Birri > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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