Hi,
I am from the IBM JVM team. I can help here.
I am going to work on setting up multiple Jenkins instances in IBM that will run Lucene tests periodically using IBMJDK 32/64 bit on different platforms. I would like to get this to the point that:
- These jenkins instance(s) will report failures directly to the Lucene mailing list.
- We will upgrade IBM JVM when new versions are available.
- We don't mind to be the one that monitor the builds and sort bugs out, but I think it will be beneficial for the community to be involved too.
On the other questions:
*. "Which versions should be tested in continuous builds? 7? 8?. I propose that we do the latest version of 7 and 8.
*. Which options should be tested? 32/64bit? which garbage collectors? I propose we spend time on 64 bit first. I need community input on garbage collectors.
- How to track bugs against existing bugs already being worked/fixed? I can keep track of the IBM JVM bug list. Need to find a way to share it with the community. Suggestions?
- How to report new bugs that show up?
I suggest that new bugs be reported to one of these 2 places with the hash tag #IBMJDK
https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/
In the mean time if there are suggestions on posting heads up messages somewhere. I can monitor these too.
- How to get snapshot builds on a regular basis and find bugs before they make it into releases? would setting up multiple jenkins instances and running Lucene test periodically address this issue?
I can be the point of contact if there are questions related to IBM JVM.