[Python-Dev] sprints and pushes
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Mar 24 03:54:09 CET 2011
On 3/23/2011 9:36 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> That's where the D in DVCS comes in. It's a new world, friends. All
> you need to do is bring a $50 wireless router to the sprint, and have
> some volunteer set up a shared repo for the sprinters. Then some
> volunteer *later* runs the tests and pilots the patches into the
> public repo. Where's the latency?
>
> N.B. The repo admin and test-running volunteers can be non-coders.
> In fact, the tests can be running concurrently (gives those non-coders
> an excuse to attend sprints!), but nobody need wait for the results.
If the push-target is a clone at, for instance, hg.python, the tester
does not even need to be at the sprint site. Skype can be used for
occasional feedback to authors.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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