Re: experiences running a Hudson CI server on the Emacs codebase

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:39:28 +0200 joakim@verona.se wrote: 

j> I guess my email was a bit truncated. I think the bzr bugs have since been
j> fixed, but with a vanilla Fedora setup you will experience them. Someone
j> setting up a similar build environment will hopefully now know to
j> install a newer bzr which isnt default in current Fedora.

j> My Hudson has now done 121 Emacs builds, the last ones have not had bzr
j> issues since ive upgraded bzr.

If you send me your setup I can try putting that up on a public server.
I was going to do a BuildBot but it seems like Hudson is a better choice
based on the Bazaar integration.  I'll also document the steps I took so
others can follow them.

j> Also it would be nice to check that code formating is ok, and code
j> documentation is ok. I dont know how to do that yet, but I was thinking
j> on maybe using "indent" and "checkdoc-batch".

For the ELisp code, elint-directory may be a nice way to check
everything in lisp/*

Ted