It looks like shining panda gives one hour per day free to foss projects. Is this sufficient for our needs? Or rather, how much compute time would a nice testing system require?
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > I went ahead and registered for the Shining Panda thing, since it was > free. There apparently is a waiting list for the free open source > plan, and we are number 6. I'll let you know when it goes online. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > The biggest problem with Jenkins in my opinion is that it has such a > > terrible user interface. > > > > SymPy-Bot is nice in that it allows completely distributed testing. > > The script is so simple and self-contained that anyone can just clone > > it and run it (I guess there are a few Python dependencies to install, > > but we could probably make distribute do that work for us too if we > > wanted). > > > > And testing pull requests is way more important than testing master; > > this is attested to by the fact that we still have not implemented > > master testing in sympy-bot. In some ways, testing pull requests > > tests master as a side effect, because we always merge with master > > first. In fact, the only time I run tests on master directly is when > > doing a release, and even that's technically some branch. (Don't get > > me wrong, though; testing master is important, and we should be doing > > it). > > > > This is kind of analogous to the git/GitHub pull request model where > > you review code before pushing it in and the > > svn/<svn_review_tool_here> model, where you review it after it goes > > in. It's pretty clear to me, and I think most others who use GitHub > > pull requests, that the former is the superior way of doing things. > > > > Aaron Meurer > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
