[DISCUSSIONS] CI build

[Claudius Heine <claudius.heine.ext@siemens.com>]

Hi,

we discussed some issues with the CI offline.

Here are my issues of the current CI with Jenkins in text:
  - Unreliable build:
    -> Network and other unrelated issues to the patch
    -> Contains expected to fail tests
  - Not transparent configuration/environment:
    -> parameters with which ci_build.sh is called are not controllable 
from the repository
    -> difficult to select which test case should be run
    -> Configuration of the environment is not controllable from the 
repository: Installed packages, System configuration (locales), 
Distribution, etc.
  - Just one giant build process
    -> Takes a long time
    -> Cannot be spread over multiple servers
    -> Giant log file, that makes it difficult to figure out exactly 
which command or test case caused an issue to reproduce that locally
  - Manually triggering of build jobs
    -> After pushing of CI branch, build has to be triggered via button
    -> Patches on ML should be automatically tested and reported back to 
ML (that only makes sense if the build is reliable though)
  - No "test everything" (acceptance test) build job
  - Logs aren't public accessible

Anyone has other issues or comments?

regards,
Claudius

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