My script for doing testing

Steven Edwards winehacker at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 16:24:31 CST 2009


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be nice to dummy email account subscribed to the commit
> messages that it could poll to trigger the checkout, build, test
> cycle.
>
> To make a Continuous Integration Service around it it should run as a
> background process under another user out of init in a Xnest/VNC
> session. I am thinking something like a winecis user which would run
> these scripts, fetch and the Xnest session as a service we could call
> winecis.
>
> I did something similar recently for a stupid java service that had to
> have an interactive gui.

Thinking about it a bit more, I guess the email thing is kind of
redundant since git can poll more often. I guess it really depends on
how many build agents you want to have hanging out hammering git. To
you want them to hammer git or hammer your mail server?

-- 
Steven Edwards

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that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo



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