Hi,
The
difference between N-builds and I-builds used to be the
signing. N-builds were not signed and I-builds are signed.
And there are other issues like Gerrit using one week old
I-build to verify code, causing a lot of problems during the
I-build etc. So we moved to daily I-builds.
In
a mile-stone we retain one build per week. And in I-builds
repo we have only last 4 builds and latest build available
for updates. There are two usecases where a single build
would fail.
- If
there is an update run by the end user during the new
build switch over the update task would fail. Since we
have previous build still available the update task would
continue.
- Sometimes
we find problems with the builds then we may remove the
build from composite. Then the users will still have one
stable build for updates.
My
recommendation for the end users would be to pick up
Monday’s build every week. If you are looking for a specific
bug fix then you may pick up that build.
Thanks
and Regards,
Sravan
Sravan
Kumar Lakkimsetti
IBM
India Pvt Ltd,
Embassy
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Off
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Hi
It seems that the original purpose has been lost and that
with milestones becoming less significant, it needs restoring.
My understanding is that N-builds are regular, typically
nightly, builds of the state of the art and that I-builds are
an intermediate/interim/integration state for some significant
advance. Since I-builds are occasional and significant they
deserve to be kept till the next milestone.
The platform seems to be using I-builds for the traditional
purpose of N-builds but persisting as for I-builds.
Integrators are forced to download far too often.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 29/06/2018 19:50, Jonah Graham wrote:
(resending to hopefully more
appropriate list?)
I was wondering why the I-builds (likewise
for older versions) contain multiple builds in them
and not just the latest?
What is the use case for a
consumer wanting either a mix of of I-build versions
or not the latest one?
(PS I am asking, because I want
to change CDT builds to track I-builds now that
Milestones are not really what they used to be, and
I am also just interested. A similar question exists
for me about the simrel release repos containing
multiple versions too, but that also seems less
important going forward as it is less likely to
happen.)
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