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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: "Thompson\, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Setting up CI for Guile
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:16:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgy1v77o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfZQ+8FGB+NHJstPRjkQd=ZAwy+ekm-_Wrv-B2FSJrfomQ@mail.gmail.com> (David Thompson's message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2016 10:34:39 -0400")

Thompson, David writes:

>> I'm a big fan of CI (automated testing), and maybe you are too. I'd
>> love to have CI for reviewing patches of Guile.
>
> This is a good idea.

+1

> That's unfortunate.  It's important to build from scratch, which means
> bootstrapping the compiler, which indeed takes awhile, but patches
> generally take days or longer to be reviewed and merged so a few hours
> is no big deal, IMO.  The GNU Guix project is working on a replacement
> for its current CI system at hydra.gnu.org that runs Hydra from the
> Nix project, named Cuirass, so I think we should try to use that
> instead of GitLab.

I so much like this idea, that I contributed some patches to Cuirass to
do exactly this.  Next to being a CI dedicated for GuixSD to track any
package's git.  Here's the discussion

    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/threads.html#01338

patches are in  Cuirass now and anyone is much encouraged to play.

> I think this is a wonderful idea that could use a new implementation.
> Thanks for getting the ball rolling with the proof-of-concept!

Yes!

Greetings,
Jan

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-06 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-06  4:26 Setting up CI for Guile Wilfred Hughes
2016-10-06  9:43 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-10-06 14:34 ` Thompson, David
2016-10-06 15:16   ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
2016-10-11 19:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-18  1:39 ` Mike Gerwitz

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