[OOTB-distro] Packaging / Provisioning / Testing

[Martin Cosgrave]

Well puppet is a means to an end, and I don't think it is necessarily 
the best tool for the job, I'm not aware yet of anything better though.

For me, having a vagrant build is really important so that developers 
can integrate their addons into the bee distro using a virtual system 
they know is identical to the bee build system.

You got the correct URL for the vagrant/puppet build, currently it is 
more or less working, at some point soon I will ask for some volunteers 
to give it a quick run through and confirm that they can run it end to 
end in its current form.

If you have a great idea for getting a distro up quicker with lighter 
tools then I am really interested to hear about it. I'm particularly 
interested in how you would propose to test the integrations of the 
addons into the alfresco build and also what would actually be shipped, 
i.e. what would the deployment look like, not vm images for you so maybe 
.deb or .rpm? What tools would you use to build the deployment?

Cheers
Martin

On 10/11/2014 18:11, Andreas Steffan wrote:
> Given what Martin said on the hive list, it seems we have  packaging and
> provisioning queued. To be honest, tools like vagrant, virtual machines,
> puppet and packer do not matter in my world and I guess that won't
> change soon. Docker is a different story though.
>
> Anyways, it seems the music is playing at
> https://github.com/OrderOfTheBee/ootb-allinone-mysql, right? Does it
> somehow play with https://github.com/maoo/alfresco-boxes?
>
> Regarding testing, I think it is more or less the same story than the
> other tools chosen so far. I think Selenium is heavy and paying off at
> scale.
>
> However, I would appreciate things to be light for a start. In the
> testing case, I think the bulk of work can be done by real (volunteer)
> people if we communicate this clearly. I think seeing human feedback
> would also give us an idea how much serious interest  there is.
>
> I do not think it makes sense to open another can of worms (source code
> management) yet, does it?
>
> cheers
> Andreas
>