I really don't like moving this way. I think that determining whether
there have been changes isn't so freaky if you use repository
commands, not workspace commands to do this. This should work with
almost every client/server SCM system except maybe CVS, and with that
you can still effectively do it with "cvs log -r X,X" (or diff)
commands. What worries me is a shift in the approach of continuum
away from a really useful system based on a limitation of the SCMs.
I'd rather have a more functional continuum that has fall-back
approaches for less feature-rich SCM systems.
Christian.
On 28-Jan-09, at 19:08 , Wendy Smoak wrote:
The more I think about this in light of the other discussion about the
problem of figuring out whether or not there have been scm changes
(because the last-used scm checkout might be anywhere) I'm leaning
towards:
1. associate a build environment with a single build agent [1]
2. get parallel builds working on the build agent (CONTINUUM-2045)
It's the effect of concurrent builds that I'm attached to, not
necessarily selecting an agent at build time. That is, I'd love to
see permission- and capability-based selection of agents at some
point, but I can live with something less than that for the moment.
What do you think?
[1] I still need to make sure only an admin controls which projects
build on which agents...
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Wendy
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Christian Edward Gruber
<[email protected]> wrote:
I think the "magic" can be made visible, in that if it is criteria
based,
the server can display those agents which would apply to the current
criteria, so that a user can see the implications of his
selection. Since
the display will be the same logic as the criteria selection (it's
really
just straight set theory) then the user is not going to be surprised.
Christian
On 19-Jan-09, at 02:44 , Brett Porter wrote:
+1
I think selection needs to be a combination of capability,
permission and
availability. I would mostly prefer the user is in full control of
selecting
these rather than having too much magic (automated selection might
be a nice
feature, but the basic starting point should be a fully configured
system).
...
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