Hi everyone,
I am testing Bamboo for my team and i am looking for some best practices for before i dig into it. Let me tell you couple of facts about what i have to deal with :
- We are building around 200 projects C#/C++ projects that is scattered thru different Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 solutions.
- At the moment our nightly build script is made in Visual Build and the same script is used for the Continous Integration (we use some variables to define whether it's a nightly build or CI)
- Both nightly build and CI is run by Cruise Control.
- All our projects publish their dll/pdb files to one folder inorder for our application can find the components.
- When Daily Build is done it publishes all it's components with the executable into a folder structure on a network drive which the developers can get in the morning by running an windows batch file (xcopy from network drive)
- During the day the Continous Integration makes sure that all the projects touched or the projects where their references are changed get's build.
- The output from the CI is also copied to network drive which developers can get during the day as above.
My questions are as following :
- I think it's better to ditch the script i have now and start over (because it's a bit messy) so the quesiton is should i create a task for each project/solution in bamboo calling msbuild from Bamboo or should i make a Windows Batch file for each project then call that from bamboo ?
- When one reads books about the build topic usually they recommend that one has a possibility to do a build on any machine for example on the developers machine, we can do that today because the script is made in Visual Build and can be launched from any machine but what if we move all the contents to Bamboo ? What's your take on this ? How do you do this ?
- We publish our output (dll/exe) to network drive, would it be better to let Bamboo take care of this and putting these in the Artifacts (i guess that's what the artifacts is for or am i mistakin ?)
- How do you guys keep the build scripts safe ? Today we have the build script inside source control but what do you do when it's scattered thru Plans / Jobs / Tasks in Bamboo ?
I guess these are my questions as a start. I will add if we start a discussion.
/donnib
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