On 25 September 2015 at 08:27, Johannes Schindelin
<johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2015-09-25 05:14, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>> On do, 2015-09-24 at 17:41 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> larsxschnei...@gmail.com writes:
>>>
>>> > My idea is that the owner of "https://github.com/git/git"; enables this 
>>> > account
>>> > for Travis (it's free!). Then we would automatically get the test state 
>>> > for all
>>> > official branches.
>>>
>>> The last time I heard about this "it's free" thing, I thought I
>>> heard that it wants write access to the repository.
>>
>> It does not need write access to the git data, only to auxiliary GitHub
>> data: commit status and deployment status (where it can put "this
>> commit failed tests"), repository hooks (to set up build triggers),
>> team membership (ro) and email addresses (ro).
>
> If that still elicits concerns, a fork could be set up that is automatically 
> kept up-to-date via a web hook, and enable Travis CI there.
>
> Junio, if that is something with which you feel more comfortable, I would be 
> willing to set it up. Even if the visibility (read: impact) would be higher 
> if the badges were attached to https://github.com/git/git proper...
>

It would be less intrusive for the CI system to have a fork. Otherwise
other people using git with the same CI system will get annoying merge
conflicts, and we'll also end up with a repo littered with the control
files from past CI systems if the CI system is ever changed.

>From past experience, if it's configured to email people when things
break, sooner or later it will email the wrong people, probably once
every few seconds over a weekend.

Automated testing is a Good Thing, but it's still software, so needs
maintenance or it will break.


Luke
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