Core App Jenkins Migration

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Greetings everyone! We're currently working with CI to migrate to an 
entirely new jenkins system for core applications. The overall process 
as you know it (jenkins builds, run tests, approves, merges) should stay 
more or less the same. However, the new setup will allow us to actually 
run on devices as well as change and modify jobs quickly and easily. I 
also hope the migration will bring more robustness and ease of use for 
the CI process.

While we migrate however, the current process has some issues you may 
encounter. In this interim period, please don't hesitate to reach out to 
myself or Alan if you have any issues with jenkins.

As an example of an issue you are likely to run it is migrating to vivid 
frameworks. Currently some of the core apps are still running jobs which 
build under utopic. To migrate to vivid frameworks (as I assume most 
projects are doing / have done), these utopic jobs will need to be 
disabled. If you encounter this, let us know so we can tweak the jobs 
accordingly.

You might also experience some weirdness around building in vivid should 
you use or require something like the vivid overlay ppa.

Just keep your eyes peeled for jenkins issues and contact us to let us 
help you while we transition. It's my goal to have everything up and 
running on the new system asap, but it will still take some time.

Thanks everyone for your patience during these growing pains, and I 
trust the new jenkins setup will make your lives easier in the end :-)

Nicholas