On 23 August 2011 07:46, Paul Sokolovsky <paul.sokolov...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Some time passed since last update on Gerrit deployment, that's > because work on complete AOSP mirroring to out tree took longer than > expected. All in all, following was done: > > Revamped branching in our toolchain/* components, freed room for > upstream branches, mirrored them. > > Mirrored AOSP kernel components. That was something I was putting > off until latest, knowing that it would bring enough burden, like > increasing storage space, increasing sync time, etc. Until last I wasn't > sure if they should mirrored, but something which turned scale is > recent talk about possibility to provide image for consumer phones from > Google (for which we may want to hack kernels as provided by AOSP). > Other point was just having complete AOSP mirror, and writing that > question off forever, freeing space for other work. So, I proceeded > with doing it, which soon led to OutOfMemory in Gerrit, so it's > probably good that it got uncovered during deployment, than later. > Thanks to IS, memory and Gerrit size were increased, and kernel imports > finished successfully. > > That means that we have complete mirror of upstream AOSP tree, and out > tree is a proper superset of AOSP. The only workitem left is setting up > automated upstream syncing via cron (so far I've been doing this > manually), and we have nice tree set up with upstream at our fingertips > (without having availability issues during builds, etc.), and at the > same time, have all freedom to do any stuff on top of it (branching, > tagging, etc.) > > I also updated Linaro Gerrit howto: > https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/Gerrit , which now should have > all info to have one started quickly with Gerrit, and cover all aspects > of Gerrit setup (like upstream mirroring and permission settings). I'd > appreciate review of that and letting me know if something is missing > there.
This looks really good. Please share this with the repo mailing list. Your great work has really helped other people trying to set up their own Gerrit instances. > Finally few points we can continue with to elaborate our usage of > Gerrit: > > 1. Set up branch policy (naming, etc.) and enforce it on Gerrit level. > This may require revamping branching in other toolchain/* components > (upstreamed not from AOSP), but in the end we'll get really robust > development setup. Agreed. One big thing that we need to work on is how we're going to handle kernel upgrades - I think some special branch-naming may be part of this solution. > 2. Turn off review bypass option which was available during transition > process. I guess Android team if comfortable by now with new process > (there're more than 80 patches passed thru review by now!), so once > 11.08 release is out, it would be good time to do that. +1 for most. I think the only thing we have to watch out for is kernel maintainers needing to push big updates out-of-band. > > -- > Best Regards, > Paul > > Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs > Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro > http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog > _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
