Hi all,
I, for one, would really like to thank you for the time you spend
helping others and contributing, Jason. Since I've been here I've tried
to take example on you and other people who have been active for a very
long time on this list.
I don't really have any opinion on the whole enterprise distros issue,
but I'd like to answer this at least:
For my part, I've glanced at the CDash site in the past, but I haven't
had the chance to make myself familiar with it yet. If it would help as
much as you say, then I'll make an effort to get involved with it as
soon as I can. If someone familiar can e-mail me a quick-start guide
(or a link to one), that would help.
All the info is here:
http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Build/CDash
It's pretty simple, the short and sweet of it is:
1. Enable dashboard reports in CMake, then generate.
2. Make a script you can add to a cron job that will run the build
target called "Nightly".
3. Add that cron job to run at the time of your choosing.
I personally keep a working copy from SVN just for the nightly builds,
because if I have any local modifications (i.e. I'm in the process of
getting a submission in shape, for example) the nightly build will
refuse to run. That also makes it so I know I have a known-good OSG
build from the last night on my machine at all times, so I can do some
testing with that too.
I have to agree that even if you don't use every single developer
release in your own software (we don't either), regular build testing
helps keep quality up. And by looking at which builds fail and why,
Robert can fix build issues without anyone ever needing to report them
on this list... It's not a complete testing solution (we'd need some
automatic-run unit tests for that) but it's a good first step.
Hope this helps,
J-S
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