Documentation/Labs/CI-and-NightlyPackagesGeneration

Overview

As of April 26th 2016, the build machines known as the Slicer factories have two roles:

• Continuous integration for Slicer
• Nightly packages generation and testing for Slicer application and associated extensions

There are currently two factories (factory.kitware and factory-south.kitware) in charge of both Nightly testing and Nightly generation of packages.

Limitations of the current infrastructure

• Some extensions are consistently not built
• No access to the factory internals
• No well described procedure on how factory machine with packaging can be set up
• Andriy: Not possible to choose the factory in the extension manager.
  • Jc: It is already possible to set the extension server in the settings
• Jorge: Community want to help, but nobody know how to
  • Jc: Having more build bots doing Nightly test would be great. See Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Tutorials/DashboardSetup for more details.

Possible improvements

• Temporary: Is there a way to run a manual build process ?

• Sharing the workload for maintaining and troubleshooting the factory process