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It is quite possible that - developers who checked in the code or users who provided the patch - may not have resources to investigate the issues, so the Builds - Czar's help is essential to keep things moving ahead. - - <li> Keep an eye on the tests that are run in every build. Anything - abnormal needs to be notified to the right developer. The Build Czar - should try helping the developer by providing stack traces (in case - of crashes) or other details like printouts with debugging level - turned on. - - <li> Some tests fail in the daily builds for many reasons like known - bugs, transient timeouts etc. Make sure that no new test failures - show up. This <a href="mailto:jwillemsen@remedy.nl">guy</a> knows - most of the information. Ask him to help you out with known - problems. - - <li> Keep an eye on the <a - href="http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/Stats">footprint and - performance</a> stats. Any abnormal changes should be brought to - the attention of the developer resposible for it or to the <a - href="mailto:devo-group@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu">devo group</a>. - - <li> Keep the builds ticking. Any red on the "Last Finished" column - in the Scoreboard should be fixed. The link to the "Build Name" - indicates the machine where the build is being run. - - <li> The builds don't cover all the possible configurations. If you - get a bug report about a compile error in a particular - configuration, try setting up a build to make sure that it doesn't - show up again if it has been fixed. - - <li> Keep an eye on the <a - href="http://deuce.doc.wustl.edu/bugzilla/index.cgi">bugzilla </a> - entries that are registered by users and developers. Decide on the - bugs that need to be fixed for the beta and pain developers for an - ETA. - -</p> - -<P> The document <a href="./privileges.html"> here </a> talks about -the powers of a build Czar. </P> - -<P> The Build Czar is empowered to set up more builds on his own for -his convenience. This -<a - href="https://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/viewvc/ACE_autobuild/trunk/README?revision=HEAD"> -page </a> has a -step by step instructions on how to do that. </P> - -<P> The build czar can get the build configuration by looking at the -config portion of the scoreboard. </P> - -<p>Pro-active involvement by the build czar is necessary. Being -a pro-active build czar requires monitoring the subversion -archive carefully and responding quickly to suspected changes to keep - the repo stays stable.</p> - -<hr> -<h2>Recipe for Cutting a Beta/Minor Kit</h2> - -<P> The build czar is also in charge for the release of the -beta. Cutting a beta is as simple as cutting butter if things go -well. Here is the procedure followed while cutting a beta: - -<ol> -<li>The whole process takes somewhere between 8-9 hours, about 2 hours -for making the release itself and the remaining time for generating -the doxygen documentation.</li> -<li>I suggest you take advantage of GNU Screen so that even if your SSH session -is interrupted, the cutting process can continue. -<ul> -<li> type <code>screen</code> to start screen.</li> -<li> execute commands as normal. Note that Ctrl-A is special in screen, so you -need to type Ctrl-A-A to send a Ctrl-A to the shell</li> -<li> should your session be interrupted, reconnect and type <code>screen -x</code></li> -<li> when finished, just type exit twice</li> -</ul> -<li>Prior to starting this, gather aggregate release notes from all -developers. This is usually in the form of an email plea asking for -a writeup of significant changes since the last beta. Add these notes -to the NEWS files before cutting the release so that all notes are -part of the release.</li> -<li>Checkout a new workspace on <tt>anduril.dre.vanderbilt.edu</tt></li> -<ul> -<li> -The best place to create the workspace is under /export/anduriltmp/bczar. Don't use -the home directory itself, it is an NFS share and not really fast. -</li> -<li>Checkout like this: -<ul><li>svn co --username <your user id> https://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/Middleware/trunk DOC_ROOT</li> - <li>svn co --username <your user id> https://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/MPC/trunk DOC_ROOT/ACE/MPC</li> -</ul> -</ul> -<li> Set $DOC_ROOT to point to the new -workspace you checked out.</li> -<li> Set an environment variable SIGNATURE indicating your full -name. This is used to fill the ChangeLog entry.</li> -<ul><li>For example,<tt>export SIGNATURE="Chris Cleeland"</tt></li></ul> -<li> Set an environment variable MAILID indicating your mail id. This -is used to fill the mail id portion of the ChangeLog entry.</li> -<ul><li>For example,<tt>export MAILID="cleeland@ociweb.com"</tt></li></ul> -<li> Change directories to to <tt>$DOC_ROOT</tt> </li> -<li> Tag the release by executing <code>ACE/bin/make_release.py --beta --update --tag</code> This will only -take a couple minutes to complete.</li> -<li> Create the kits by executing <code>ACE/bin/make_release.py --kit </code> This will take about two hours to complete. - -<ul><li>These commands only tags and creates the kits for the - software itself, not documentation. </li> -<li>The kits end up in <tt>/export/anduriltmp/bczar/packages</tt></li> -</ul> -<p> -To summarize, the following is a transcript of the steps up to this point executing -successfully: <p> -<code> -sm@beatrice ~<br> -$ ssh bczar@anduril.dre.vanderbilt.edu<br> -No default printer<br> --bash-3.00$ cd /export/anduriltmp/bczar<br> --bash-3.00$ export DOC_ROOT=$PWD/DOC_ROOT<br> --bash-3.00$ export SIGNATURE="Simon McQueen"<br> --bash-3.00$ export MAILID=sm@prismtech.com<br> --bash-3.00$ svn co https://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/Middleware/trunk DOC_ROOT<br> --bash-3.00$ svn co https://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/MPC/trunk DOC_ROOT/ACE/MPC<br> --bash-3.00$ cd DOC_ROOT/<br> --bash-3.00$ ACE/bin/make_release.py --beta --update --tag<br> --bash-3.00$ ACE/bin/make_release.py --kit<br> -</code> -<p> -Feel free to cut and paste with suitable edits. -<li>In the <em>EXTREMELY</em> unlikely event that something goes wrong during the -<em>tagging</em> of the repo (ie, make_release -v beta -u), -the following files must be returned to the state they were in before the release -process started and then checked back into SVN:<br><code> -ACE/ChangeLog<br> -ACE/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM<br> -ACE/VERSION<br> -ACE/TAO/ChangeLog<br> -ACE/TAO/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM<br> -TAO/VERSION<br> -CIAO/ChangeLog<br> -CIAO/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM<br> -CIAO/VERSION<br> -CIAO/ciao/Version.h<br> -TAO/tao/Version.h<br> -ace/Version.h<br></code><p> -In most cases, a <code>svn revert -R *</code> from DOC_ROOT will suffice.<br /> -The tag will also need to be removed (both in Middleware and MPC): ACE+TAO+CIAO-X_Y_Z -(where X and Y are the minor and beta release numbers of the release that is to be restarted).<p> -E.g.:<br> -<code> -svn rm https://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/Middleware/tags/ACE+TAO+CIAO-X_Y_Z<br /> -svn rm https://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/MPC/tags/ACE+TAO+CIAO-X_Y_Z<br /> -</code> - -Note that this <em>only</em> needs to be done if the <em>tagging</em> fails. If kit creation -fails, simply restart that process. -<li>The packages end up by default under $DOC_ROOT/packages-PID, you can copy them to the webserver using the following commands. At the moment -you execute these commands all users can download these packages.</li> -<code> -cp $DOC_ROOT/packages-PID/ACE* /export/www/download.dre/ACE+TAO-distribution<br> -</code> -<li>After the repository is tagged you can start generating the doxygen -documentation.</li> -<li>Login to naboo.dre.vanderbilt.edu as bczar: <code>ssh bczar@naboo.dre.vanderbilt.edu</code></li> -<ul><li>After login, ssh to bczar@download.dre.vanderbilt.edu as bczar and check whether ssh succeeds. If not fix the problem. The make script tries to copy the tar.gz files to the website using ssh.</li></ul> -<li> go to /web/users/isisbuilds/tmp/ACE_wrappers and remove the contents of this directory</li> -<li> Update the workspace with the right version tag </li> -<code> -svn co svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/Middleware/tags/ACE+TAO+CIAO-X_Y_Z/ACE ACE_wrappers<br> -svn co svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/Middleware/tags/ACE+TAO+CIAO-X_Y_Z/TAO ACE_wrappers/TAO<br> -svn co svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/Middleware/tags/ACE+TAO+CIAO-X_Y_Z/CIAO ACE_wrappers/TAO/CIAO<br> -</code> -<li> Set the needed environment variables using</li> -<code> -export ACE_ROOT=/web/users/isisbuilds/tmp/ACE_wrappers/ACE_wrappers -</code> -<li> Run doxygen --version within the shell. </li> -<li> Open up $ACE_ROOT/bin/generate_rel_manpages in your favorite editor.</li> -<li> Search for the string 'doxy_version'. </li> -<li> Check the version specified here. If it is the same as the one -you got using doxygen --version then you don't have to worry. </li> -<li> If it is different change the value of the doxy_version to the one installed on naboo.dre.vanderbilt.edu.</li> -<li> Now you are ready to create documentation </li> -<li> Do a <code>cd $ACE_ROOT</code> and then run <tt>make -f Release manpages</tt> to create the doxygen -documentation.</li> -<ul><li><b>If you can't leave the terminal window active for 6-9 hours, - consider prefixing this command with <tt>nohup</tt></b></li></ul> -<li>While doxygen churns, format a release announcement, including the -release notes gathered from developers. <a href="sample_relnotes.txt"> -You can use these as an example.</a> -<ul><li>Let <a href="mailto:schmidt@cs.wustl.edu">Doug Schmidt</a> review -these before you do anything with them.</li></ul> -<li>Check the file, generate_rel_manpages into the repository if you have made some changes to it.</li> -<li>Make sure the new version is available in Bugzilla.</li> -<ul> -<li>now we have a bczar Bugzilla user with full privileges. This bczar Bugzilla account would point to bczar user at ISIS. For example, as a new build czar, you could update the .forward file on one of the ISIS hosts, say, naboo.dre.vanderbilt.edu with your build czar email.</li> -<li>you should be able to send request through the bugzilla system to email you the password at any time to bczar@dre.vanderbilt.edu</li> -<li>here is the description of how to add a new version through Bugzilla.</li> -<li>go to any Bugzilla "Query" page, you should see a yellow box at the bottom. click "Log in" link to log in as bczar@dre.vanderbilt.edu.</li> -<li>look at the yellow box at bottom again. You will see several links following "Edit". Click on the "components" link.</li> -<li>you are then at "Select product" page. You should see a list components, i.e., ACE CIAO TAO. Click on the product you want to edit.</li> -<li>you are then at "Edit product" page. Scroll down a bit, you should see a list of all versions coming with this product. At the very beginning of the list, you should see "Edit versions" link. Click this link.</li> -<li>you should see a "Add a new version" text box and a "Add" link just above the yellow box at the bottom. Click on this link</li> -<li>you are then at "Add version of [Name of the product]" page.</li> -<li>you are able to add the new version now.</li> -</ul> -<li>Now update the documentation at - www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/Doxygen.</li> -<ul> -<li>Login to naboo.dre.vanderbilt.edu</li> -<li>su to bczar user</li> -<li>cd to directory /web/www/Doxygen</li> -<li>Create a temporary directory. eg. tmp - mkdir tmp</li> -<li>Change Directory to tmp - cd tmp</li> -<li>scp file from the download server - - scp bczar@download.dre.vanderbilt.edu:/export/www/download.dre/ACE+TAO-distribution/ACE-html.tar.bz2 .</li> -<li>Unzip and untar the files - bunzip2 ACE-html.tar.bz2;tar -xvf ACE-html.tar</li> -<li>Do cd ..</li> -<li>Create directory 'Current Version No'</li> -<li>Change directory to 'Current Version No'</li> -<li>Move contents of tmp/html to this directory - mv ../tmp/html</li> -<li>Now Change Directory - cd ..</li> -<li>Remove the already existing soflink to the "Beta" with rm Beta</li> -<li>Create softlink "Beta" linking it to new Documentation using: ln X.Y.Z/html Beta --symbolic</li> -<li>Remove the directory tmp - rm -rf tmp</lib> -</ul> -<li>Update in the autobuild archive the file configs/scoreboard/releases.xml with -the made release. This is used by the integrated scoreboard on http://remedy.nl</li> -<li>You should also the packages to the previous versions directory with the appropriate decorators. Do -this after the doxygen documentation packages are ready so that these are also archived. -<ul> -<li><code>cd /export/www/download.dre/ACE+TAO-distribution</code></li> -<li>Modify <code>/export/anduriltmp/bczar/copy_script</code> to use the correct version X.Y.Z and run it. -</ul> -<li>Mail the approved release announcement out to, at minimum the following: -<tt>ciao-users@cs.wustl.edu</tt>, -<tt>tao-users@cs.wustl.edu</tt>, -<tt>tao-announce@cs.wustl.edu</tt>, -<tt>ace-users@cs.wustl.edu</tt>, -<tt>ace-announce@cs.wustl.edu</tt>. Do this as yourself (not as bugzilla). -<b>N.B.</b> You will not be able to post to the users' lists unless you are -subscribed to them. Odds are you will not be able to post to the announce lists -at all. Ask someone else (like Doug) to do this step. -<li>When all cidlc builds are ready with the new version, login to naboo.dre.vanderbilt.edu -as bczar and run <code>./cut_cidlc.sh version-number</code> fe <code>./cut_cidlc.sh 0.6.0</code>. If this -script is not in its place, then the original is in the bin directory of the distribution.</li> -<li>Update docs/Download.html to show the new release. Make sure you refer to the -previous_versions directory, that way we can exactly track how many people download -a specific version.</li> -<li>Update etc/index.hml to show the new doxygen package you installed</li> -</ol> -</p> - - -<hr> - -<h2> Tips to being a Build Czar</h2> -<p> -1. Trust no one.<br> -2. Be careful with <a href=http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt>this -guy</a>, he is notorious in breaking builds (and fixing them as -well...Rumour has it that it's actually a super-scalar, -super-pipelined processor capable of out-of-order execution, in human -incarnation).<br> -3. Don't forgive people who break ACE :-)<br> -4. If a build hasn't run in a long time (symptoms are a "red" in the -Last Run column of the build scoreboard), delete the .disable file in -/path/to/build/directory/BUILD_NAME/ by hand.<br> -5. Think of the group who wrote the scoreboard update script, every time -you catch an otherwise not so obvious error with the help of the -scoreboard. Tell <a href="mailto:devo-group@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu"> DEVO group -</a> about it.<br> -6. Add $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/etc/FROZEN to freeze the repo <br> -7. Add names of people who need to be given permission and make sure -that you add your name so that you can see what is being checked in. <br> -8. Leave a line at the end of the FROZEN file <br> -9. Compile once on Win32, Linux and Solaris before cutting a beta.<br> -10. Trust the release script when making a release. Don't make tar -balls by hand. Make sure that the public ftp directories -(/project/beguine/ftp/pub/ACE+TAO-distribution and -/project/beguine/ftp/pub/ACE+TAO-distribution/diffs) have the right -permissions, so that the release script can copy the tar balls.<br> -11. When making a release, make sure that all the auto_compiles on -that machine (deuce.doc.wustl.edu) are stopped. Also make sure that -there is enough space in /tmp on that machine.<br> -12. When all hell breaks loose, don't wait for the nightly builds to -monitor improvement. Instead manually start the builds.<br> -13. Maintain private up-to-date workspaces for problem platforms (read -as Solaris).<br> -14. Don't hesitate to ask for help.<br> -15. When you get an account to access the cvs repo, make sure you are added to the correct groups, for example, gid=100(users),5000(doc),5002(acetaodev),5003(cvs). Otherwise you will have problem to checkout various modules.<br> -16. Install your public key to the different machines you have frequent access to avoid typing password.<br> -17. Update this page if you have any more tips for future build czars :-). This -page is in svn under <code>ACE_wrappres/docs/bczar/bczar.html</code><br> -</p> -</body> - -<body> -<Center> <h1>The Realm of the Build Czar</h1></center> -<hr> -<h2>Build Czar Arthur</h2> -<p>Many years have passes since the days of the legendary Build Czar -Arthur. His duties were given to him by the mystical Lady of the Lake, -who outlined the first responsibilities of the Build Czar.</p> -<tt> -<br> -Then bespake the Lady of the Lake,<br> -And these were the words said shee:<br> -"I knoweth of thy deeds, thou noble Arthur,<br> -but thy task hath not finished for thee"<br> -<br> -"Thou shalt feitch thy trusty steed,<br> -And cleanse thy builds againe;<br> -Then shallt thy ryde hath finnished,<br> -When new kits released thee cann."<br> -<br> -Then bespake him noble Arthur<br> -And these were the words said he:<br> -"With what weapons shallt I use,<br> -To asure these from the devil free?"<br> -<br> -Then appeered before noble Arthur,<br> -Uppon the ground a sacred scroll<br> -Conjurred by the Lady of the Lake<br> -Borne of the earth in a roll.<br> -<br> -She saies, "Clasp this to thine selfe<br> -For thee shallt find need for it.<br> -It shall keep others in the cold,<br> -Only to be ressurected when thee sees fit."<br> -<br> -"Others shall join thy person,<br> -To ryde with thee in thy quest;<br> -Thee shallt be thankful of theire help,<br> -And to alsoe hold them steadfast."<br> -<br> -"But if theire talke too lodly rise,<br> -And causeth much damage to thine cuntry,<br> -He must come forth, and make proclamation,<br> -For the next one he shall be."<br> -<br> -So hath Arthur to the Lady spoke:<br> -"For I sweare, and save my othe,<br> -While enimes and evils I seeke,<br> -I shall fight against them bothe.<br> -<br></tt> -<hr> - - -</html> |