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[Peter Buelow <goballstate@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think the big problem is the multi platform stuff. I'm considering a 
new mac mini, on which I could setup build automation (sometime this 
summer I think), but that doesn't solve the Windows problems. I may be 
able to get a Windows 7 setup going as well as a VM, but again, it will 
be a few months before this will be running. I still have to solve some 
house issues, and my job keeps getting in the way.

The other problem here is testing. Who tests these regular builds? 
Hudson will do an automated thing, and it's easy to setup, but we have 
no test framework. It probably wouldn't be too hard to write some test 
harness code, something more modular to test classes that hudson could 
run for sanity, but we still have to test the gui at some regular 
points. Nightlies work great if you have a handful of volunteers who can 
regularly test to a script and provide meaningful feedback. Maybe we 
have enough now, but it's hard to guess whether it could work.

If we had more "full" time devs, or even more part timers, this sort of 
big setup might be manageable, but I count two full timers, and only 
several more part timers.

The solution here might be to not worry about it today. We put together 
a list of tests we have to run to certify a release, and we make sure we 
have enough people with working setups to build for Mac and Windows, and 
provide Fedora and Debian packages. I know we missed some bugs, but 
until we have a larger base willing to commit some time to help us 
package and test, this is really a difficult process.

Sorry, I don't like being Debbie Downer, but I don't want to see the 
whole project falter because we tried too many things or to be too big.

On 03/26/2013 09:43 AM, Tim Payne wrote:
> Jenkins seems to be the tool of choice these days for build 
> automation/continuous integration.  There are some cloud based Jenkins 
> servers out there, but with some googling this morning I wasn't able 
> to find a cheap/free multiplatform one.
>
> Having never set up a Jenkins server/install, I don't know what would 
> go into getting your own up and running, but I know that it's possible 
> to have multiplatform "slaves" that do the builds all coordinated by 
> the Jenkins server.
>
> I need to do this exact thing for another project of mine, if you 
> don't mind waiting a month or two I'll go through the pain of setting 
> it up and will let you know how (if!) it went.
>
> Tim
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Philip Lee <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Yep. Sorry about that, I just forgot to build them this time.
>
>     BTW, does anyone know of a decent not-too-expensive web service
>     that will build brewtarget for multiple platforms? The build
>     process is pretty tedious.
>
>     On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:26 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:mikfire@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>         In response to a question on hbt.com <http://hbt.com>, I
>         noticed we only have v2.0.1 releases for Debian. Should we
>         maybe do some RPM releases too?
>
>         Mik
>
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