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On 1/26/16 11:54 AM, Philipp Kewisch wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 1/26/16 1:01 PM, Volker Birk wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:58:22AM +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 25/01/16 18:52, R Kent James wrote:
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<pre wrap="">But I am reluctant
to recommend Taskcluster unless we are convinced that we could also run
Taskcluster independently of Mozilla. Though Taskcluster is open source,
making it a public resource that other organizations could run has not
been a Mozilla priority. Someone needs to investigate Taskcluster and
see if it possible now or in the reasonably foreseeable future to run
that independently of Mozilla, should we need to do that in one of our
possible futures. Otherwise, we need to resist converting to Taskcluster.
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<pre wrap="">What would be the alternative?
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jenkins-ci.org/">http://jenkins-ci.org/</a>
This is what we were suggesting for Thunderbird.
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<pre wrap="">While I like Jenkins a lot, I have the impression that the server
requirements are pretty beefy due to requiring java, and jenkins needs
to be restarted once in a while because...well java :-)
If we do go with Jenkins, we should definitely hide it behind
appropriate vpns and firewalls.
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It would likely make more sense to look at using a hosted solution,
if possible, instead hosting our own. I've had experience running a
Jenkins server, it's really not fun. Something like Travis-CI or
CircleCI tend to require much less maintenance!<br>
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Just my 2
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--Patrick<br>
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