Hi Chapel Developers --
We've been working on improving the ability for an external developer to
more easily make contributions to the Chapel project, and have recently
introduced three changes in support of external developers:
1) Kicked off a #chapel-developers IRC channel. This chatroom is intended
to support quick Q&A between Chapel developers as an alternative to
email. Here are the coordinates:
Server: chat.freenode.net
channel: #chapel-developers
SSL: yes
port: 6697
2) Moved cron-based regression testing emails onto SourceForge mailing
lists (previously, they were hosted on Cray-based mailing lists).
This permits an external developer to monitor the impact of their
commits on the source tree independently, without a member of the Cray
team to be involved.
More specifically, we run a number of testing configurations on a
nightly basis and send email summaries reporting on new failures, newly
passing tests, and the like. By monitoring these mails, one can get an
indication of whether their commit caused new failures or fixed
previous ones.
We are currently investigating technologies that would provide a better
roll-up of testing status across configurations, but in the meantime,
this makes public the mechanism we've been using internally. We are
also working on reducing noise in the testing system as much as
possible.
The two mailing lists involved are:
chapel-test-results-regressions : testing mails are sent here if
"something interesting" happened in the configuration
(e.g., a new failure, or a newly passing test)
chapel-test-results-all : all testing mails are sent here,
whether "something interesting" happened or not.
External developers can either subscribe to these mailing lists (the
former is the more sane one to follow) or browse the archives as
needed.
3) Moved our nightly performance testing graphs to our SourceForge web
pages. These permit external developers to monitor the impact on
performance that their commit had on the current suite of performance
tests.
These graphs are currently password-protected, as performance
remains hit-and-miss in Chapel. If you have a need to access these
graphs, please request the URL + password on the developer chatroom
or via email.
-Brad
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