I'd like to set up automated daily build and smoke tests for bleedperl
and the other active trees.
If anyone's not familiar, a daily build and smoke test is the practice
of building the entire system and running its tests every night to see
if anything was broken durning the day's work. Turn it on, see if it
smokes. This reduces the scope of bugs and keeps things from
festering. You know the bug was caused within the last day.
It will be fairly simple to write and distribute a cron job which
wraps "make test" and emails if anything fails.
The simplest place to start is SourceForge's compile farm. Its
currently limited to Debian/x86, FreeBSD/x86, Tru64/Alpha,
RedHat/Alpha and Solaris/Sparc but its a good start. There's also
Kurt's Perl Labs (currently in limbo?)
Unfortunately, the compile farm is currently limited to being able to
read from sourceforget.net and its CVS servers. Thus, it can't see
ftp.linux.activestate.com to get bleedperl. Is anyone here familiar
with SourceForge and know a way around this?
If anyone else would be willing to become a smoker, please step
forward. I'm requesting that Ask set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] (aka The
Smoker's Lounge) for further discussion. I'll let everyone know when
its up.
