On 2016-11-29 07:43-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan,
> I will have a look at this - it is a pretty lengthy email and I have never used cdash before ;). It is probably not that complicated, but I do want to get a clear idea about what it means. Hi Arjen: To be precise you are actually using ctest as a dashboard client to send dashboards to our dashboard server (the PLplot_git "project" at my.cdash.org). The place where today's submitted dashboard information is publicly displayed is <http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=PLplot_git>) with calendar links to submissions on other days. So you don't actually need to know anything about the cdash software that runs that site other than it provides a nice dashboard server. As a first step, look carefully at the kinds of information displayed at <http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=PLplot_git> by clicking on everything for a given dashboard. For example, it turns out my concerns about privacy were overblown since there is nothing there to identify who submitted a dashboard and there is not even anything there to identify who organized the "PLplot_git" project. (It was me. :-) ) So you end up knowing a lot about the computer that ran ctest including its name, but nothing about who actually owns that computer. As a second step instead of plunging right in by running ctest with the "-D Experimental" option you may want to run scripts/comprehensive_test.sh with the "--do_submit_dashboard yes" option. For a good example of this possibility please see the Tested by: section of the commit message for commit 7e987c4. Finally, read README.dashboard_submissions. I have recently (commit 8cf972a) created that file to document our dashboard submission capability. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
