I think this would be a good idea as configuring a machine for building can be a barrier to entry for people wishing to contribute.
Sarge > On 10 Feb, 2017, at 12:29, Anthony Baker <aba...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > The geode-native build, like most c++ projects, requires a fairly specific > toolchain. Now that we have a docker build environment [1], I’d like to ask > INFRA to automate the creation and publishing of docker images for > geode-native. This can be done by integrating GitHub / DockerHub [2]. Note > that the docker image would *only* be for build purposes and would not > contain source or binaries from geode-native. By publishing our build > toolchain in a docker image: > > 1) it makes contributing easier > 2) it makes our travis-ci builds faster (currently at ~30min) > 3) it paves the way to create a nightly Jenkins job for geode-native > > I suggest publishing this image under the apache namespace [3] as > geode-native-build. Thoughts? > > Anthony > > [1] https://github.com/apache/geode-native/blob/develop/docker/Dockerfile > [2] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11584?jql=project%20%3D%20INFRA%20AND%20text%20~%20docker > [3] https://hub.docker.com/u/apache/
