[Mailman-Developers] Gsoc idea discussions : Continuous integration tool

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

varun sharma writes:

 > Can i use buildbot for the server part and integrate it with
 > frontend suite ?

This is way too compact to understand what you're proposing.  If you
mean "configure a buildbot to build and test Mailman 3", and that's
it, no.  This is Google Summer of *Code*, and you have to write a
substantial piece of code.

If we can't figure out what you're proposing, your proposal will not
be adopted, no matter how much we want the feature.  Please read

    http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Blog/SPAM.txt

for some hints on how the proposal process works.  Most of this is not
yet applicable to your proposal, it's more about the completed
proposal.  But it will give you an idea of where you need to be headed.

At this stage, you need to be clear about the *requirements* you
propose to satisfy, so that we can evaluate your proposed *design*.
These can be very rough (the sentence quoted above is about half of
what you need for design *at this stage*; the other half is an
explanation of what the "frontend suite" is and how they will be
connected).  But "Continuous integration tool" is not even close to
specifying requirements.  What is your tool going to do?

Your full proposal will need to be more detailed -- we need to be able
to estimate how much code you need to write, which means a fair amount
of detail about the requirements, at least.  We need a couple of
intermediate milestones, so that we can evaluate your progress at
midterm.  We expect to be working with you over the next couple of
weeks to refine your proposal.  (Occasionally students deliver a full
proposal out of the blue, but that's very rare.)

 > I tested buildbot on postorius

Again, I have no idea what you're trying to say here.  Postorius is
not a platform for running buildbot.  What does this mean?