[Bf-committers] introduction

[Leif Andersen]

Hello Ian.

> 1) Is there an automated nightly build?  (e.g., BuildBot, hudson, etc)
> If not, what would it take to get one set up?  Actually, I think I
> could do this myself -- but it would lack the ability to post good
> output to a webserver.  I could easily have email sent to this list if
> that's acceptable.
>
No, there currently isn't a nightly build, although I'm currently also
investigating to see what work would be involved.  (I'm also relatively new
here), as part of my GSoC project on testing.  I'm using CMake/CTest to make
the reports and sending them to CDash.  Currently though, only my particular
branch is doing this at the moment (to my knowledge), and this is still at a
highly experimental phase.  I wrote a HOWTO page on how to set it up, but
it's not as good as the howtos for the trunk ;) (
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:LeifAndersen/GSoC2010/Howto ).

~Leif Andersen

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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:49, Ian Watkins <watkinsig at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Nathan Letwory
> <nathan at letworyinteractive.com> wrote:
> > On 3.6.2010 18:46, Michael McLay wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Nathan Letwory<
> >> nathan at letworyinteractive.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 3.6.2010 17:13, Ian Watkins wrote:>  Lastly, have you guys used git
> at
> >>> all?  With the many branches you've
> >>>
> >>>> made for SOC, and the commit policy, I'd think you guys would love
> >>>> distributed source code management -- along with the ability to merge
> >>>> less painfully.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> No. I try to sync trunk to gitorious.org/blenderprojects though. And I
> >>> don't think that a change of SCM will be done anytime soon. SVN has
> >>> served us well enough and after a big CVS->SVN transition I don't think
> >>> most of the users are longing for yet another one. Personally I'd like
> >>> Git though.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I hope the Blender team is open to suggestions about how to improve the
> >> project management activities. I agree with Ian that moving to a
> distribute
> >> source code management tools has advantages. Merging is one of them.
> Another
> >> is the ability to checkin to a branch when you are offline and then
> later
> >> push the commits to the local copy of the branch back into the branch in
> a
> >> central repository. The choice between Git, Bazaar, or Mercurial is a
> matter
> >> of taste more than a matter of features.
> >>
> >> A higher level discussion might also reconsider the choice of gforge. I
> >> believe there is some disastifaction with gforge and alternatives have
> been
> >> suggested. I don't recall the name. It wasn't Trac. I believe it was
> written
> >> in Ruby. I wasn't reading the Blender mailing list when the decision was
> >> made to move to gforge, but I would assume it may have been due to
> problems
> >> with Sourceforge. That is a common reason for ditching Sourceforge. From
> a
> >> project management perspective I would suggest considering a move to
> >> Launchpad.net would. There are many advantages in migrating Blender to
> >> Launchpad.
> >>
> >
> > I worked on Redmine for a while, but got bogged hugely down by the
> > workload at the previous job. Now that I am my own employer I think I'll
> > recontinue this work if wanted so.
> >
> > There has earlier been talk about why not use an existing hosting and
> > project management solution, and from the discussions I have gathered
> > that it is in the end much more desireable to be in complete control of
> > everything, with the risk that some resources go "to waste" by
> > maintaining those (I'd say they go to a good cause, but that depends on
> > your vantage point).
> >
> > Currently there's an effort under way to upgrade our ancient gforge
> > installation to the latest version. This has been impeded due to
> > problems with the servers though, but once those are solved I think that
> > we'll see at least an updated and upgraded gforge installation, which
> > hopefully alleviates the most pressing problem: the trackers.
> >
> > I guess we can have the discussion again after the integration (it's
> > already in the pipeline, as said).
> >
> > About launchpad - I think I tried gaining maintainership of the Blender
> > project there, but I have had no responses to my queries, so I lost
> > interest in it (and after having used both Git and Bazaar I came to
> > prefer Git after all, even though I was leaning towards Bazaar in the
> > beginning) Anyway, as I already mentioned, I have a git repository
> > mirrored on gitorious.org/blenderprojects, and can add users there that
> > want write access to some repository, but not be in the so-called core
> > team (people with write access to our svn repository).
>
>
> Further queries:
>
> 1) Is there an automated nightly build?  (e.g., BuildBot, hudson, etc)
> If not, what would it take to get one set up?  Actually, I think I
> could do this myself -- but it would lack the ability to post good
> output to a webserver.  I could easily have email sent to this list if
> that's acceptable.
> 2) Is there a code review tool instance?  (i.e., review board,
> crucible, reitvald, etc)  If not, can one be set up?
>
>
> --
> --Ian
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