Build farmer/cop handoff 2017-08-15

[mikaelarguedas]

Farmer:

• Pending tasks:
  • update java on OSX and Windows nodes (Update java on Windows and Mac OS machines #43)
  • update packages on master and linux2:
    • may fix linux_slave_on_master will not run jobs #30 now that docker 17.05 available on trusty, I updated linux3 and havent seen the docker failure since
  • investigate packet.net node failure (packet machine crash on "resource busy" #42)
• Nice to have: Try VS2017 and assess if we can migrate Windows nodes to it
• Recurrent tasks:
  • make system updates on MacOS and Windows machines
  • upgrade eatable to windows 10
  • keep chocolatey packages up to date on Windows nodes

Cop:

• Outstanding issues:

  • New failing test: time operators (tracked here)
  • rcl_get_node_names became flakier than before on all platforms (example here), mainly tracked here. Still confused of why it started failing much more often recently
  • rcl_test_wait / test_timeout became flakier on Windows (has always been flaky but now fail on most CI not only repeated nightlies)

• Job status:

  • Packaging jobs: green
  • Nightlies: green except time operators.
  • Repeated: all yellow, <15 failing tests per night per platform 🎉. Still 58 different tests failed in the last 5 days (script here)

[wjwwood]

Thanks @mikaelarguedas! I'm going to close this as these issues are tracked separately, but it's definitely useful to get started.