Add promote util

[fangpenlin]

This basically does what this https://github.com/balanced/confucius/blob/master/fabfile.py#L25 does. You can now input PACKAGE and VERSION as build parameter. For example, billy, 1.0.3-3 and it will make the package to be in main for you.

[fangpenlin]

@victorlin https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Promoted+Builds+Plugin

[mahmoudimus]

ping @coderanger can we merge this in?

[coderanger]

I'm against it, I really don't think this is a good use ofJenkins.

[mahmoudimus]

@coderanger this is temporary until we can use rundeck -- see this card: https://trello.com/c/q6IJUfBl but right now, I'd like people to have 1 place to promote jobs.

[coderanger]

Yes, that one place is "cd to the confusius folder and run the command". "one place" doesn't have to equal "is a web page".

[coderanger]

Alternatively didn't you setup the build promotion plugin for this already? (which at least has some semantic meaning)

[mahmoudimus]

@coderanger I did but I wanted to see how @victorlin would do it. This is a testament to how easy it is to add jobs in our new ci pipeline :)

[mahmoudimus]

Yes, that one place is "cd to the confusius folder and run the command". "one place" doesn't have to equal "is a web page".

I agree w/ this, but we had some push back from engineers who didn't want to run the deploy cmd :) They're used to the old jenkins installation.

[coderanger]

Okay, so we can then close this as "mission accomplished"?

[mahmoudimus]

If by close, you mean "merge" :)

[coderanger]

No, I mean close, this was an experiment, we now know how complex it is to add new jobs, but we don't need this job in particular thanks to the build promotion plugin. Is there something else I'm missing?

[fangpenlin]

@mahmoudimus @coderanger I will see what I can do with that promote plugin, and create another branch which is based on plugin approach :)

[coderanger]

Superseded by #42