My script for doing testing

[Austin English]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Marcus Meissner <marcus at jet.franken.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 05:21:30PM -0500, Steven Edwards wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Austin English
>> <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The other neat thing is that it will run git fetch in a loop every 30
>> > minutes (again, overridable), so that you can run it in the morning
>> > while waiting for AJ to commit. Once commits are made to the git
>> > master branch (but not stable), the script will kick into motion.
>>
>> 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.
>
> As AJ is pushing just once a day you can also run your fetch script
> once a day... Perhaps triggered by a commit mail.

Sure, that would be an option if the system has e-mail configured, but
since I use webmail, I went with the 'sit and wait' method. For other
projects that script would obviously need a different strategy (though
I don't other projects are running winetest.exe daily ;-)).

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-Austin