I'm proposing to enhance the attachment mechanism in two ways: (1) Allow attachments on check-ins
(2) Allow tags on attachments. The motivation here is to better support continuous integration testing for projects hosted by Fossil. The ideas here are coming out of some techniques shown to me by Roy Keene (the current host and maintainer of chiselapp.com) that he is using on his professional projects, and my thoughts on how I might do similar things in SQLite and also in TCL. My idea is that some project-specific automated test script runs on the latest trunk check-in, and generates a succinct test report of some kind, say "test-out.txt". I would like the ability to attach that test report to the check-in. Furthermore, I'd like to be able to tag that test report as a test report using tags "test-pass" or "test-fail". Additional tags might identify the platform on which the test was run (linux, mac, openbsd, windows) or which specific test suite was used. On the timeline display, attachments tagged with either test-pass or test-fail would be shown inside a <span> with class='test-pass' or class='test-fail' so that CSS could display those those attachments specially (perhaps using green and red colors, for example). Clicking on the attachment link in the timeline would show the attachment text, of course. To support this, the fossil file format must be enhanced to allow T cards on attachment artifacts (https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/fileformat.wiki#attachment). T cards in attachments would be required to use * as their second parameter so that the tags added apply to the attachment only - not to other objects. In addition, A card would be enhanced to allow a check-in hash as its target. There will also need to be some enhancements to the "fossil attachment" command to allow the project-specific test scripts to add appropriate attachments with tags. Thoughts? -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ fossil-dev mailing list fossil-dev@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-dev
