Yes this is done intentionally. And the reason being that if tests are not passing then the regular build should be down. And if nothing is getting down about the regular build then developers are sleeping on the job.
Nightly builds are by definition unstable and should be considered releases. That said in general i am not against enabling tests in the builds. However it does make the build longer and often nightly builds are generated on demand... so the waiting period will become longer. But probably acceptable. 2c. -Justin On 2/25/10 3:02 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > I just noticed that nightly builds of the stable branches are running > with skipTests. > > (1) Are these builds used to create the nightly downloads? > > (2) If so, does this mean that we are allowing the world to download > nightly release artifacts created by builds with failing unit tests? It > looks like the nightly builds fail only on compile errors. > > This is what they do: > > geoserver-2.0.x-nightly: > mvn -DskipTests -P release,communityRelease clean install > > geotools-2.6.x-nightly: > /opt/actual/apache-maven-2.1.0/bin/mvn -U deploy -P deploy.opengeo > -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dtest.maxHeapSize=256M -Dall -DskipTests > > Furthermore, I noticed while debugging a nightly-built jar that > timestamps are mixed, indicating that GeoTools was built without "clean". > > Please tell me that I misunderstand this. Is Hudson doing something > clever that I do not comprehend? > > I would very much prefer all nightly release artifacts to be built with > "clean install" and without test skipping, on stable and trunk. This is > the bare minimum quality standard my organisation requires for our > GeoServer trunk build, in which any unit test failure prevents an > artifact update: > https://cgsrv1.arrc.csiro.au/swrepo/GeoServerTrunk/latest/ > http://geobuilder.arrc.csiro.au/geoserver/waterfall > http://geobuilder.arrc.csiro.au/geoserver/one_line_per_build > > Kind regards, > -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
