We never turn down good help like this. Thank's Chris. I have applied for an unlimited license for TeamCity for the NumPy project. I have heard good things about TeamCity, although getting the slaves cranking and staying cranking is the goal and not the CI architecture. If you know build-bot, it's a good place to start.
I have heard very positive things about Jenkins. I also think that hosted solutions are going to be easier to manage over time. But, your offer is very generous. -Travis On Feb 16, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers <at> googlemail.com> writes: > ... >> While we're at it, our buildbot situation is much worse than our issue >> tracker situation. This also looks good (and free): >> http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/ > > I'd like to help with the NumPy Buildbot situation, and below I propose > a plan for myself to do this. However, I realize there are people who > know more about continuous integration than I do. So, if someone is > already planning to do something, I'd be happy to help with a different > plan instead! > > > I know how to set up and run Buildbot (and how much effort that takes), > but I'm not familiar with the alternatives, so I can only propose one > concrete plan: > > I'll find a machine on which to run a build master, then start to add > slaves (real machines or virtual machines). At first I'll focus on the > NumPy master branch, (a) testing it over different operating systems and > versions of Python and (b) reporting things such as test coverage. I'll > keep the Buildbot configuration in a github project, along with > documentation (in case I disappear...). > > After getting to this initial stage, I'll discuss about adding more > features (such as testing pull requests, performance testing, building > binaries on the different operating systems, etc). Also, if it's working > well, this Buildbot setup could replace/be merged with the one at > buildbot.scipy.org (I don't know who is currently running that). > > > Buildbot is used by some big projects (e.g. Python, Chromium, and > Mozilla), but I'm aware that several projects in the scientific/numeric > Python ecosystem use Jenkins (including Cython, IPython, and SymPy), > often using a hosted Jenkins solution such as Shining Panda. A difficult > part of running a Buildbot service is finding hardware for the slaves > and keeping them alive, so a hosted solution sounds wonderful (assuming > hosted solutions offer an adequate range of operating systems etc). > Also, earlier in the "Issue Tracking" thread some commercial packages > were mentioned; I don't know anything about those. So, as I said at the > beginning, if someone is already planning to do something (or wants to) > I'd be happy to help with a different plan instead! Otherwise, I can > proceed with the plan I suggested. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
