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Bug 412147

Summary:	Create separate test jobs for different branches
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	David Williams <david_williams>
Component:	Releng	Assignee:	Platform-Releng-Inbox <platform-releng-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	4.3
Target Milestone:	4.4.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	routine releng

Description David Williams

2013-07-02 17:47:03 EDT

In theory, we could use the same Hudson test jobs for each branch of what we build ... everything is controlled through variables. 

But, if we have some with different names, there is a some advantage of being able to run tests "in parallel" on Linux and Macs ... thus, getting some idea sooner if all was going well ... though, always have to wait for Windows to complete "serially" so not shorter time overall. 

I'll need to investigate, but seem to recall some feature (in Hudson 3.x?) that allowed you to use "inheritance" in Hudson jobs (I think essentially defining one job as "just like another" except for xyz). So that might simply things if we didn't have to maintain literal copies of the jobs ... just use a a different name.

Comment 1 David Williams

2014-12-11 05:53:43 EST

This was actually fixed a long time ago. So long, I don't recall exactly when, so will put "4.4.1" to be approximately correct.