Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix t3404 assumption that `wc -l` does not use whitespace.

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:16:27AM +0100, Mike Ralphson wrote:

Which branch(es) would it be most useful on which to have this
automated build/test cycle?

I would think maint, master, and next, but with next as the least
important. I think Junio generally tests maint and master before
publishing, but presumably not always next (as there was test breakage
in next earlier today).

Although the list of tags might get slightly unwieldy (i.e. the top
commit will gain a lot of tags if all is well), with a sensible naming
convention, these tags could be pushed to a central repo (a regularly
updated clone of git.git) allowing easy visibility of the current
state of the 'build collective'.

Something like {intials}_{uname info}_{branch}_KNOWN_{BUILDING|PASSING} ?

I have started tagging my auto-builds as you suggest. It should be easy
enough to push to a repo.or.cz repository. Although I'm not sure of the
utility of auto-publishing this information. Who is going to look at it?

I had assumed a workflow more like "it passes 99% of the time; in the
remaining 1%, the cron job kicks off a message to the owning user, who
then investigates and/or writes a bug report to the list."

That implies a little bit of expertise and work from the user owning the
build, but:

  - presumably it won't happen very frequently

  - they are probably the only person with the resources to diganose and
    fix, anyway, since they are the ones with access to the platform.

-Peff