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Usman Bhatti

VM - Latest or Stable

Currently, we have a bug in the latest version of Pharo VM that does not allow a build to complete (Esteban is working to correct it) As the builds in Moose jenkins depend on the latest version of Pharo VM, we were unable to perform any build since 10 days (that also includes INRIA downtime). But the question is:

Should Moose and other builds in the moose jenkins depend on the latest VM? Or we should depend on the stable version of the VM?

Now, stable version is good but we dont have many bug fixes that are integrated in the latest version. For example, most of the builds in the jenkins are now unstable and I suspect that's being caused by the fact that we are now depending on the stable Pharo VM. I cannot verify it since the latest VM is buggy.

Can you please see your respective builds and see why is jenkins becoming unstable?

usman

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Uko2

Re: VM - Latest or Stable

I think that one more option would be to make a build matrix for 2 VMs

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Re: VM - Latest or Stable

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Hi,

Moose policy is to work with the latest of Pharo as much as possible. This implies VM and image.

We still have to get a bit more aligned with the Pharo effort on the image side, but for the VM, we want to stress the latest version of it.

Of course, in exceptional cases, we should make exceptions. In the current case, using stable until the bug is solved is a good solution. But this should be an exception. In the past half a year since we moved closer to Pharo, this is probably the first blocker that took longer than 1 day to get fixed. Thus, the default policy of working with the head works well, and it saves effort in the long run.

Cheers,

Doru

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Usman Bhatti <[hidden email]> wrote:

Currently, we have a bug in the latest version of Pharo VM that does not allow a build to complete (Esteban is working to correct it) As the builds in Moose jenkins depend on the latest version of Pharo VM, we were unable to perform any build since 10 days (that also includes INRIA downtime). But the question is:

Should Moose and other builds in the moose jenkins depend on the latest VM? Or we should depend on the stable version of the VM?

Now, stable version is good but we dont have many bug fixes that are integrated in the latest version. For example, most of the builds in the jenkins are now unstable and I suspect that's being caused by the fact that we are now depending on the stable Pharo VM. I cannot verify it since the latest VM is buggy.

Can you please see your respective builds and see why is jenkins becoming unstable?

usman

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