Is it time to start regression testing yet?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 6, 2009, at 15:36, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

> http://portmill.florianebeling.com/ is doing a default build for  
> all ports if I'm not mistaken.

I'm just getting back to this thread.

Thank you for your work on this, Florian!

Some friendly criticism:


I imagine you've been working on this for awhile, and since this is  
an open source project, it would have been nice to know you were  
working on this, and to have the code in the MacPorts repository (the  
users area would have been a good place for it during development).


You said you wrote this with Rails and CouchDB. While I understand  
the desire to write using technologies you're familiar with, MacPorts  
is written in Tcl, and the main MacPorts web site is written in PHP  
and MySQL, and it would be nice to not introduce new technologies if  
possible, so as to lower the barrier to entry for other developers.  
It's easy for me to say, since I am very familiar with PHP and MySQL,  
and do not know and had not planned to know Rails and CouchDB. In  
fact I would rather not have yet another hostname and yet another  
disjoint part of the MacPorts web experience, but rather integrate  
this content into the existing www.macports.org web site, or into the  
new port pages planned with #19300:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19300


I notice it flagged the mldonkey build as failed, but in fact it was  
one of mldonkey's dependencies which failed. Perhaps there is a way  
that could be made more clear in the interface.


Juan (jmpp) had always said that a prerequisite for a build/test  
system was implementing the port logging proposal:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/LoggingProposal

And this is the project Dmitry (enl) has been approved to work on for  
this year's Google Summer of Code:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/enl

http://trac.macports.org/browser/branches/gsoc09-logging

Have you coordinated with him? We don't want duplication of effort.  
Your work is clearly logging something because the logs are appearing  
on your web site. If this is not integrated with the MacPorts Tcl  
code, perhaps you can assist Dmitry in doing so. If you and Dmitry  
finish the logging task early I'm sure there are other tasks we can  
have him do for the rest of the summer.