"Smith, Barry F." <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> writes: >> On Dec 30, 2017, at 3:53 AM, Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> > On Dec 29, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> >> > wrote: >> > >> > The nightly builds are down (out-dated data at the website) and Satish >> > is in India and cannot fix it. >> > >> > Please do not put anything into next until you are notified that the >> > nightly tests are working again. >> > >> > Cool. >> > >> > This should tell us that we need to make more of an effort to automate >> > this part, and employ failsafe measures. >> >> Indeed. Note that this is largely just bad timing, this happens very >> rarely and it is just bad luck Satish is out. >> >> I agree completely. However, right now we are all too indispensible. We >> usually focus on transmitting developer knowledge, >> but I think we need more focus on transmitting process knowledge. Could >> another group of people pick up and run >> the maintenance process for PETSc? > > No because they would use jenkins or some similar worthless shit; > we need to keep control of the processes but need more more help in > running the processes.
It shouldn't be this labor-intensive. As I understand it, we could use free hosted CI except for proprietary compilers/unsupported environments. Most of those CI systems want to sell their products with enterprise pricing for custom environments, but I think it's supposed to be easy to use the gitlab-ci runner on a custom machine. > Basically another Satish, ideas on how to find such a person? Impossible to find "another Satish".
