Continuous Integration

The continuous integration system for Horde constantly monitors the integrity of the Horde build, does quality control checks, and publishes the resulting data.

The system is based on Hudson and uses the PHP Hudson tools as build environment.

You should be able to get the same system up and running in no time on your local machine.

Prerequisites

For the following to work there are a few elements required on your machine:

• Make
• PHP with the xdebug extension
• PEAR
• Java (Sun JDK)
• Ant

Installation

Clone the Horde Support repository first:

git clone git://github.com/horde/horde-support.git

As a first step we will install Hudson and all the plugins we need to cater for the tools used when running the build:

cd horde-support/ci-hudson
make install

Now you can start Hudson (it will listen to the default port 8080 unless you don't modify anything in etc/hudson.

init.d/hudson start

The command should start the Hudson daemon with no output. Check that Hudson is running now and can be reached via the network (e.g. localhost:8080).

At this stage you cannot login yet. You need to disable the security feature at least temporarily in order to enter the system. Once you set the security setting appropriate for your site you can turn the back on back on.

Edit workdir/config.xml and ensure the useSecurity setting is set to false:

<useSecurity>false</useSecurity>

Now restart Hudson on the command line with:

init.d/hudson start
init.d/hudson stop

Once the system is up again you can freely configure it. After you modified the security settings to your liking you need to restart Hudson again. This time you should be able to do this from within Hudson ("Manage Hudson" -> "Reload").

At this time none of the jobs will have been build. To start the process all you need to do is to trigger the php-hudson-tools job once.

ci.horde.org

As a Horde developer you should be able to log into Hudson via your usual Horde developer credentials. You have full rights to start/stop builds and administrate the Hudson installation.