I have recently had the opportunity to greatly improve the NetSurf CI build infrastructure both in terms of hardware and software.
On the hardware side I would like to thank Mythic Beasts [1] for once again generously donating a 1u rack server. This is a 8 core Xeon with 24G of memory which replaces their previous donation of a 4 core 8G system. This server is the projects primary VM host for CI build slaves and the bug tracker. It continues to be hosted by Collabora [2] in Cambridge. Other services the project uses, like the website, remain hosted by Pepperfish [3] for which I would also like to extend my appreciation. The new hardware has reduced the NetSurf CI rebuild time under 150seconds (down from 300) on all ten currently built operating systems and allowed the addition of more build combinations improving the utility to the developers. The additional memory has allowed us to add more build slaves and hence extend the number of OS built for. Also the number of checks performed in analysis jobs[4] was extended. The CI software has been upgraded to the latest version of jenkins along with all the other plugins. I used the opportunity to complete the improvements to the development build process which was started at the developer weekend. This has resulted in the job history and rss feed data for many CI jobs (including the main NetSurf job) being reset, apologies if this adversely affects anyone but as new builds are performed the history backlog will build up again. As a note builds are only performed if commits to the git repository[5] occur, we do not perform periodic (daily) builds in general. As there have not been many commits recently there have been very few builds, this is correct and expected behaviour. [1] https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ [2] https://www.collabora.com/ [3] http://www.pepperfish.net/ [4] http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/jenkins/job/scan-build-netsurf/ [5] http://git.netsurf-browser.org/ -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
