Re: BBC canary

On 10/21/2017 12:13 PM, Ryan Voots wrote:
 > After the recent hullabaloo with
 > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132252 I've started looking
 > at making the blead build I run daily more accessible as a canary for
 > these kinds of issues.  After talking in #p5p briefly about this, it was
 > suggested I also bring it here.
 >
 > This is mostly about "*ACTION ITEM:* Do we want an "offical" BBC testing
 > platform? All of CPAN? Prioritize top distros from CPAN River?" from
 > 
https://github.com/p5h/2017/wiki/What-Do-We-Want-and-Need-from-Smoke-Testing%3F
 >
 > I don't think mine should quite be an official testing platform, but I'd
 > like to make it available as an early warning for changes that could
 > cause issues like the CV is stash changes before.  Right now it produces
 > output like this: https://perlbot.pl/static/build-2017-10-09.log which
 > is huge and annoying to consume.  I'm planning for my own sanity to make
 > this easier to monitor anyway and break it up into the different phases
 > it goes through (build blead, install cpan modules, and run 10% of the
 > code run through perlbot on irc).  I think doing this would make it more
 > useful for anyone to see if they've broken some important part of CPAN.
 >

Thank you for posting this.  I've begun to work my way through it.

Is there one "master" program on your github.com site which, when run, 
generates the output in the *.log file above?  (I'd like to follow along 
at home.)

How often do you run this program?

 > You can also see what modules it's trying to install at
 > https://github.com/perlbot/perlbuut/blob/master/cpanfile
 >
 > My eventual goal that's not related to this is to actually put all this
 > in a jenkins setup instead of a cron job that i have to monitor through
 > email all the time, which should make it much easier to digest for
 > everyone else too if they want to monitor it.
 >
 > You can see all the code setup to do this here,
 > https://github.com/perlbot/perlblead-ci
 >
 > Please let me know your thoughts on what would make this the most useful
 > for everyone.
 >
 > Ryan Voots


Jim Keenan

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