Infrastructure SIG meeting notes: Sept 29th 2011

Present:

• Tully
• Florian
• Melonee
• Ken
• Ethan
• Troy

Agenda:

• Review requests and prioritize.
• Ethan Ken present rosci prototype
• Lay out plan of attack on priorities

Notes: Reviewing proposals

• Troy might have an alternative to puppet/chef.

External documentation

• Important to document layout of the output of the documentation/indexer.

External Release

• External Closed Source release support needs to be able to support better masking or custom debian rules files. rosbuild2 installable can take care of much of this.
  • There's a lot of it so converting it might be a problem.
• might need/want ABI stability of core packages

PIP based release scripts would be convenient, they're not backwards compatible, so might only work for Fuerte and newer.

Non rosbuild packages

• Plan to install into /opt/ros/ROSDISTRO
• Need to be careful about people installing into the system.
  • Need ABI checkers for c++
  • Need Python script/library checking

Reviewing rosci prototype:

• Potientially seperate test-deps and build-deps vs runtime deps
• We currently don't have tests against the binaries/installed versions
• Might need a little more doc configuration, such as what to call where to execute.
• Not supporting all variants of build options might not be a good idea. If you want to do something extremelly non standard/complicated write an itermediate "package" with download unpack patch logic as necessary and provides test, doc and install targets.
• Might want to write a mock set of packages to test our infrastrucure which builds and installs very quicky.

• Need a fake jenkins and fake packages.ros.org

• Need a way to reproduce packages.ros.org for testing and backup/recovery.

• start with rosci on pcl, opencv, eigen later we can extend it to things which are already working, maybe(ROS packages with rosbuild2)

• a draft of what the required metadata would look like https://gist.github.com/1251713

Package documentations

• Need to make which packages are released in a specific distro.
  • shoot for some good color coding based on review status.
• improve visibility of tests and coverage

Action Items:

• upgrade askbot (Tully) contracting with Evgeny help from Nathan

• upgrade hudson to jenkins (Turkey) -- progress on email with Nathan today

• rosci with rospkg rosdep std_msgs ecto (Ethan Ken Troy)

• convert release scripts (Ken)

• puppet/chef investigation (Tully)

  • release run_chroot w/o configuration

• list of core dependencies (Florian), see IPA dependencies

• reproducable jenkins and packages.ros.org (including devel versions)

• fix debbuild on storm

• make release information more visible on the wiki