On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:

I am thinking, how is better to track Hudson builds.
Currently VM reports a build by taking a VMMaker package version.
But it is incomplete information:
- there is no evidence which sources been used and which
configuration of CMakeVMMaker been used.

Hudson fetching everything from git, so using git hash number is a
complete pointer to the sources.
But in addition, i need to specify which configuration been used
(since there are many of them).
Actually i think that the more information we put, the easier it would
be to track down, which VM are used.

So, my question, what is your preferences?
Because currently 'Cog 4.0.0' as well as 'VMMaker-foo-bar.xyz' says
almost nothing :)

VMMaker-foo-bar.xyz says /everything/ about the source covered by VMMaker. I want the Monticello package lists for all packages involved (there's OSProcessPlugin and some others outside of VMMaker). I want the url of the platforms tree and the revision (i.e. the exact coordinate to check-out the exact same source).

This is all about reproducibility. You provide exact coordinates. From those coordinates anyone can recreate the source. That's why I check-in the generated source along with the platforms and build trees. That way one only has to dereference a single coordinate, the svn tree.

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.