Re: Test server (was: Re: Harvesting infrastrucure)

Hi!

Markus Gaelli <[email protected]> wrote:
[SNIP]
> > This would allow a weekly cron job that tells us where we stand, and
> > could form the basis for the tests becoming an important part of the
> > release cycle.
> Yepp.
> 
> Could this be run on the squeakfoundation-server also?
> 
> I would prefer that, because the only free server-machines we have
> here at Berne are solaris, and the VM sometimes crashes on them
> after a while because of some socket-problems.
> I could set up a linux-box also, just means work...

I have root access to the virtual SuSE machine at sqf. I also have a
proper /etc/init.d/script to start/stop/status SqueakMap that we can
reuse for other services.

There is a brand new Linux VM compiled at site (compiled with no X) etc.

Mail me when you have something to set up.

regards, Göran
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From: Daniel Vainsencher <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Test server (was: Re: [Squeakfoundation] Harvesting
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Markus Gaelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > Maybe we can now think about setting up a simple test server, too.
> >
> I already started to do something like that and plan to finish it
> this weekend.
Cool!!

> Several questions:
> 
> > I think a good minimal setup would
> > - Get the latest image/changes from the ftp site
> Shouldn't we use the update facility itself?
This has two aspects. 
- I proposed something minimal. We can always add cool stuff later, but
getting feedback as often as bruce generates an updated image is already
a big improvement.
- What we definitely want to avoid is working with a stale image because
the initial release of an update was fubared. This has been known to
happen. So using bruce's image line is better than creating another
independent-always-updating image-line.

> > - Fire it up, passing it the next instructions as a parameter
> > - So that it loads SUnit from SM
> > - and the Test Suite, too
> Talked with Marcus, and he agreed that SUnit just could
> be moved into the TestSuite, or at least automatically
> loaded, if not present there.
This doesn't matter to your project, but any investment in temporary
hacks around the lack of dependencies in SM 1.0 is pretty much a waste
of time, because SM 1.1 is coming, and will enable proper load scripts
to be published on SM. So do the simplest thing that could possibly
work.

> > - Runs them
> > - Mails some simple rendering of the results (say, how many passed, and
> > the names of tests that failed) to an address it gets as a parameter.
> Like to integrate that with BugFix-Archive also.
We could concievably make it send "[BUG] IntegerSetTest>>addTest fails
in image Squeak3.6 5674" type announcements to the list, but I think
this would probably be too much traffic. 

OTOH, if we create a squeak-reports mailing list, as I proposed on the
Harvesting Traffic thread, and point sqfixes to also read that, this
would become quite feasible, and possibly useful. 

Again, this is a cool thing that could be added later, the important
thing is to start getting the benefits of a running test server. 

Daniel
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Am Freitag, 06.06.03 um 11:04 Uhr schrieb Marcus Denker:
> 2) the CVS at sourceforge only allows ssh for developers, and pserver
>    is blocked by many firewalls. I'd like to set up a cron-job
>    to checkout the sources each night, and then build a .zip from
>    it.

Are you aware of the nightly snapshot at

	http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/squeak-cvsroot.tar.gz

-- Bert