Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers <at> googlemail.com> writes: ... > While we're at it, our buildbot situation is much worse than our issue > tracker situation. This also looks good (and free): > http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/
I'd like to help with the NumPy Buildbot situation, and below I propose a plan for myself to do this. However, I realize there are people who know more about continuous integration than I do. So, if someone is already planning to do something, I'd be happy to help with a different plan instead! I know how to set up and run Buildbot (and how much effort that takes), but I'm not familiar with the alternatives, so I can only propose one concrete plan: I'll find a machine on which to run a build master, then start to add slaves (real machines or virtual machines). At first I'll focus on the NumPy master branch, (a) testing it over different operating systems and versions of Python and (b) reporting things such as test coverage. I'll keep the Buildbot configuration in a github project, along with documentation (in case I disappear...). After getting to this initial stage, I'll discuss about adding more features (such as testing pull requests, performance testing, building binaries on the different operating systems, etc). Also, if it's working well, this Buildbot setup could replace/be merged with the one at buildbot.scipy.org (I don't know who is currently running that). Buildbot is used by some big projects (e.g. Python, Chromium, and Mozilla), but I'm aware that several projects in the scientific/numeric Python ecosystem use Jenkins (including Cython, IPython, and SymPy), often using a hosted Jenkins solution such as Shining Panda. A difficult part of running a Buildbot service is finding hardware for the slaves and keeping them alive, so a hosted solution sounds wonderful (assuming hosted solutions offer an adequate range of operating systems etc). Also, earlier in the "Issue Tracking" thread some commercial packages were mentioned; I don't know anything about those. So, as I said at the beginning, if someone is already planning to do something (or wants to) I'd be happy to help with a different plan instead! Otherwise, I can proceed with the plan I suggested. Chris _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
