Awesome! Glad to see Chapel moving in this direction. :)
-- Brandon
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Brad Chamberlain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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