April 8th, 2022 Video

Jace Talk: Jenkins

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJygRI2hoVJsInz17FsM9Jif3bzTbeMT7

Topics

• Coffee Stainers
• Technology

Transcript

python we also use a tool called jenkins jenkins is an open source automation server which, we use basically as a build system so every time a developer submits their code to our before server our version control server jenkins will run and create a new build of the game each time, and what this sort of means is that when other people then get the latest version of the game for example artists you know who aren't really compiling code what they will get is pre-compiled binaries for the editor so they don't need to compile the code every time they get the latest jenkins automatically takes care of that every time a programmer checks something in, yeah creates some pre-compiled binaries for the editor so no one else has to worry about that and if for any reason it can't compile it alerts us and lets us know that something's wrong and then we take a look at what's up we also use jenkins to run profiling on new builds as well just to, check performance of the game as we as we go rit folks also