Hi Luca, I, for one, would like a nightly build on several platforms and also be able to trigger one. We have several build system and if we could cover those in a better way that'd be indeed helpful.
As to running test suites, i am not certain we'd want that necessarily at the start... Stefan > Am 03.04.2016 um 15:29 schrieb Luca Toscano <[email protected]>: > > Hi Apache devs! > > While browsing the Apache website I came across this interesting service > offered by the ASF: https://ci.apache.org/buildbot.html > The list of features seems great and several projects are already using it, > including APR, httpd-doxygen and the httpd staging website > (https://ci.apache.org/builders). It could be used as support tool to help > developers while testing commits on multiple platforms (of course without > aiming to replace manual "human" testing from our community). > > I have observed the dev@ mailing list for a bit and I can see a strong > development process so this idea might be totally useless, but in case you > like it let me know your thoughts and I'll start taking a look to the work > needed to set up a basic testing automation (with the help of the infra team, > trying to free them as much as possible from configuration details). > > There are pros and cons of having an automation like this one, for example > having excessive spurious spam/headaches due build failures, so the first > step would only be to try it and see if it brings value to the project. > > Thanks! > > Regards, > > Luca
