On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Dan Nessett <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not sure I get this. Here is what I understand would happen when a
> developer checks in a revision:
>
> + A script runs that manages the various regression tests run on the
> revision (e.g., parserTests, PHPUnit tests, the Selenium-based regression
> test).
>
> + The Selenium regression test needs a URL to work with. There are a
> fixed set of these defined in httpd.conf.
>

There's no need to have a fixed set of URLs; just as with Wikimedia's
public-hosted sites you can add individually-addressable wikis dynamically
at whim without touching any Apache configuration. URL rewriting, or
wildcard hostnames, or whatever lets you make as many distinct URLs as you
like, funnel them through a single web server and a single codebase, but
have them running with different databases.

en.wikipedia.org and es.wikipedia.org don't need separate entries, and
neither would test1234.r56789.wikimediatesting.org and
test1235.r56789.wikimediatesting.org

+ Before assigning one of these to the regression test run, there is a
> requirement that it isn't currently busy running a regression test for a
> different revision. So, you need resource access control on the URLs.
>

If each test run has its own wiki, there's no need to control access -- no
other tests would be trying to access it.

-- brion
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