On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Maybe some sort of automated distributed build farm would be a good idea. Check out http://build.samba.org/about.html to see how samba does it (much lighter than the Mozilla tinderbox approach).
We wouldn't need to be as intensive as they appear to be - maybe a once or twice a day download and test run would do the trick, but it could pick up lots of breakage fairly quickly.
That is not to say that more intensive testing isn't also needed on
occasion.
Check the archives on this, as its been hashed out already once at least ... I think the big issue/problem is that nobody seems able (or wants) to come up with a script that could be setup in cron on machines to do this ... something simple that would dump the output to a log file and, if regression tests failed, email'd the machine owner that it needs to be checked would do, I would think ...
If there's general interest I'll try to cook something up. (This kind of stuff is right up my alley). I'd prefer some automated display of results, though. A simple CGI script should be all that's required for that.
cheers
andrew
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