This is all fantastic, thank you Joachim. But how would a new GHC dev find out
this information? Could it please be documented on the wiki? Perhaps a page
called
Continuous integration and buildbots
to cover both Travis and the buildbots? I'll call it the "CI page".
How would one find the CI page? I looked at
Working on GHC: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions
An item in the first bulleted list, pointing to the CI page
Status reports: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status
Has a section called "Nightly builds", which could point instead to the CI
page
Building guide: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
Could have a link to the CI page.
That "Nightly builds" heading points to http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/builders/,
which is utterly opaque to me. It needs a wiki page explain what all this means.
I'm sorry that I keep bleating (daily!) about writing up on the wiki, but it's
really key to helping new people feel part of the story and able to contribute.
The button on the home page is good too, but
a) it only helps if you have some idea what Travis is. Otherwise it's just
noise
b) it only helps if you know how to interpret the page you get to when you
click it, which I don't.
c) I never look at the home page. I look at "status" or "building" or whatever
from the LH column.
The CI page could explain all that.
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
| Joachim Breitner
| Sent: 12 July 2014 18:05
| To: ghc-devs
| Subject: Travis now tests ghc directly
|
| Hi,
|
| I just added a .travis.yml file to GHC master. This means that every
| push will be validated automatic and for free by travis; you can check
| the build status at https://travis-ci.org/ghc/ghc/builds
|
| It is not a full validation. In particular,
| * it skips DPH
| * it does not build dynamic libraries and no dynamic executables
| * does not build haddock or generate documentation
| * only runs fast tests, and no performance tests
|
| This way we stay under the 50 minuite limit.
|
| Failures are reported to me, and I’ll manually report relevant breakage
| to you. It is also configured to mail to [email protected], but I
| don’t see these messages there. Maybe some mailing list admin needs to
| whitelist mails from Travis CI <[email protected]>?
|
| I’ve also added a link to it from http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/,
| including a nice icon showing the current build status.
|
| If you have that .travis.yml file in your branch, travis will also test
| these.
|
| My unofficial ghc-complete repository is therefore obsolete, I stopped
| updating it.
|
| Greetings,
| Joachim
|
|
|
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