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What's the status here? I recall this has been dealt with, but you should adjust the due date accordingly then

Florian poked Joel and Björn for details

For reference, Cloph's IRC posting:

<@cloph>    we have "static" bibisect repos http://dev-downloads.libreoffice.org/bibisect/linux/ - those are highly detailed - and we have continuously updated repos in /srv/git/* on dev-downloads...
[17:08:38]  <@cloph>    debugutil (linux), windows and mac are updated by tinderboxes - so there are updated builds, although not necessarily matching the build environment of the "static" ones. 

Maybe #598 is related

Let me add what was in #1280 originally:

• Do we still need Bibisect 5.0 Linux bibisect builds from the Sun Ultra 24? (given that there is a "Linux dbgutil" bibisect repo at git://dev-downloads.libreoffice.org/lo-linux-dbgutil-daily.git -- or is that too big/otherwise cumbersome?)
• please check the docs at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Bibisect for possibly needed updates to documentation
• Is the Sun Ultra currently in use? If not, I might be interested in running some stats with them.

Florian Effenberger wrote:

Let me add what was in #1280 originally:

Please clarify:

• Do we still need Bibisect 5.0 Linux bibisect builds from the Sun Ultra 24? (given that there is a "Linux dbgutil" bibisect repo at git://dev-downloads.libreoffice.org/lo-linux-dbgutil-daily.git -- or is that too big/otherwise cumbersome?)

I've asked people about the bibisect repos this week, and the overall impression I get is that having a regular (i.e. non-dbguil) daily bibisect for Linux is indeed useful. While we do have very fine coverage of commits with the XX-max family of repositories, those aren't available as daily-updated resources. Norbert mentioned the possibility of having the Jenkins machines produce builds for bibisect repo, so I'm going to follow-up w/him on that and see what plans he has (and timetable) for making those available.

• please check the docs at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Bibisect for possibly needed updates to documentation

Current docs have been updated with the latest repositories. Norbert is currently working on a backlog of commits for Windows bibisect, but will provide a link to the correct repo and update the notes on the wiki page when the building is caught up.

• Is the Sun Ultra currently in use? If not, I might be interested in running some stats with them.

If we're happy with the existing set of bibisect repos (XXmax + dbgutil), and we can use the builds generated by Jenkins to feed into a vanilla daily repo for Linux, then I think that the Ultra machine can definitely be repurposed for stats, etc.

Robinson Tryon wrote:

Florian Effenberger wrote:
I've asked people about the bibisect repos this week, and the overall impression I get is that having a regular (i.e. non-dbguil) daily bibisect for Linux is indeed useful.
...possibility of having the Jenkins machines produce builds for bibisect repo, so I'm going to follow-up w/[Norbert] on that...

Further conversation with QA Team, Norbert, etc.. clarified some points:

1. QA members would like to have up-to-date bibisect repositories available for testing
2. While the Jenkins buildbots can produce builds several times a day, Norbert's preference is to only make updates available every 2 weeks or so (which would simplify the git-gc step, etc..)

If we're happy with the existing set of bibisect repos (XXmax + dbgutil), and we can use the builds generated by Jenkins to feed into a vanilla daily repo for Linux, then I think that the Ultra machine can definitely be repurposed for stats, etc.

IMHO the remaining question is whether or not it's acceptable to wait (up to) 2 weeks to get the latest stack of builds from the bibisect repository. I think it's a fair interval, but I'll confirm with the rest of the team