Workflow Plugin queries

[Kishore RP]

Our current automation framework builton muliconfig+multi+freestyle is showing up limitations due to executor starvation.(we need our tests to run on multiple windows versions and Ubuntu,RHEL,CentOS,OpenSuse)

We are planning to overhaul it with a label based mechanism using matrix project plugin and get rid of multijobs as much as possible, ( we have multiple restarts in between), so that we get a real time matrix representation of tests.

While evaluating the same we ran into workflow plugin, so wanted to understand few things with regards to workflow plugin, please help

1) Does it provide real time update of tests like the way label based mechanism of blinking dots, we don't want users to do a text find in console output, 

2) If there is any error in the groovy script written, does it bring down jenkins server?

3) stupid question , but Does workflow plugin limit itself to 64 bit OS's in anyway? We want support for both 32 and 64 bit OS's

[Jesse Glick]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Kishore RP <kisho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does it provide real time update of tests like the way label based mechanism of blinking dots

Not quite sure I followed that, but: Workflow does not currently
provide a replacement for the UI aspect of matrix-project. It is under
consideration for the future.

> If there is any error in the groovy script written, does it bring down jenkins server?

Should just cause the build to fail.

> Does workflow plugin limit itself to 64 bit OS's in anyway?

Word size should not matter.

[Kishore RP]

Thank you for your reply Jesse, much appreciated.

Follow up questions.

> Does it provide real time update of tests like the way label based mechanism of blinking dots 

Not quite sure I followed that, but: Workflow does not currently provide a replacement for the UI aspect of matrix-project. It is under consideration for the future. 

[Kishore]: That would be one nice to have feature, if it can make it soon, would be a good feature to workflow plugin

[Kishore]: Using workflow plugin, our end users want to know what is happenning on a jenkins slave at some point of time by clicking on a hyperlink,(provide hyperlink for each slave), i believe asking them to go through a console output of all slaves is painful and not user friendly Is there a way to go about this?

Regards

Kishore

[Jesse Glick]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Kishore RP <kisho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using workflow plugin, our end users want to know what is
> happenning on a jenkins slave at some point of time by clicking on a
> hyperlink, (provide hyperlink for each slave)

Not sure I follow the question. The URL for the slave should show the
status of its executors, which would link to the consoles of any flow
builds running on it at the time, the same as freestyle builds.