Build System Configuration Control

[rcurtin]

Reported by speet3 on 8 Aug 2011
Make sure all the critical build server tools and applications keep all their configurations under some type of revision control. The goal here is to be able to quickly re-initialize the build system from backups/SVN should the server somehow get nuked.

Acceptable control methods (each has appropriate applications):

• Puppet for configuration control
• Debian packages containing configuration information
• Config files or scripts kept directly in SVN

Backup policy for build information and artifacts has yet to be determined.

[rcurtin]

https://github.com/mlpack/jenkins-conf is a partial solution, and I back up /var/lib/jenkins on big.