image demo not working on eatable

[mikaelarguedas]

Since eatable has been turned back on it is failing the image demo tests.
@clalancette to give context about what has been done on the node and its reactivation

CI failing tests:
http://ci.ros2.org/job/ci_windows/2534/
http://ci.ros2.org/job/ci_windows/2555/
list of builds here: http://ci.ros2.org/computer/windows_slave_eatable/builds

[clalancette]

I just took eatable offline. I added additional information to the logbook, but essentially:

• This is our only Windows 8.1 machine.
• It is randomly failing some tests that work fine on our other Windows (10) machines.
• It probably needs an update to RTI Connext, and maybe some other software.

So we should probably just leave it offline until someone has time to debug the problems, and/or declare Windows 8 unsupported.

[dhood]

sorry to be late to the party, I only just found this repo. my notification settings are fixed now.

Last time I saw that output for image demo tests on windows buildfarm machines, it was resolved by setting the opencv path (entry 16 in the logbook). The other test failures seem to just be flaky tests, right?

I sense that there is more context here around disabling eatable, so I am trying to get the info on paper before we forget about this.

[nuclearsandwich]

sorry to be late to the party, I only just found this repo. my notification settings are fixed now.

No worries, we actually recommended folks unwatch this repo with the intention that only current the buildcopfarmer needs to be watching this space.

[mikaelarguedas]

It probably needs an update to RTI Connext, and maybe some other software

It may not have a patched version of connext that would lead to randomly failing generated messages when running in multithreaded

There is also the more global question of: "do we target Windows8.1 support?" if yes we may want another windows8.1 machine and create different jobs for those. If not this should be upgraded to be another Windows 10 node

[dirk-thomas]

This will be obsolete with eatable being offline and scheduled to be reprovisioned with Windows 10 (see #17).