On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan@ochtman.nl wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Eli Bendersky eliben@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting. Chromium has something kind-of similar, named "commit queue", for developers without actual commit access. Once they get an LGTM, the thing rolls automatically. In fact, core developers often find it useful too because the Chromium tree is sometimes closed ("red"). We don't really do the latter in Python, which carries a problem we'll probably need to resolve first - how to know that the bots are green enough. That really needs human attention.
Another interesting (and relevant, I think) concept from the Mozilla community is the Try Server, where you can push a work-in-progress patch to see how it does on all the platforms. I.e. it runs all the same tests that build slaves run, but the repository it works against isn't accessible publicly, so you can try your work without breaking the main tree.
Yep, Chromium has try-jobs too, thanks for reminding me. And in a previous workplace we had a similar process screwed on top of Jenkins - private test runs wherein you provide a branch to CI and the CI tests that branch. In fact, when your test may affect many different architectures, such "try jobs" are the only way to do unless you really want to build & test a branch on a few different OSes.
Once again, this almost always requires some dedicated developers for watching the tree (Chromium has sheriffs, gardeners, etc.), I'm not sure we have that for the CPython source.
Eli