From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2008-07-04T00:07:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:17552] Re: We'll release 1.8.6/1.8.7 this Friday

On 7/3/08, Igal Koshevoy <igal@pragmaticraft.com> wrote:
> Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>
> > Igal Koshevoy wrote:
> >
> > > Please delay the release. I don't think we'll be able to resolve the
> remaining critical issues by Friday.
> > >
> >
> > For what it's worth, this is all a strong argument for having a CI server
> and keeping rubyspec "green" all the time. Nobody likes having to delay a
> release because there's a stack of errors to be dealt with.
> >
>  Absolutely.
>
>  Is anyone providing CI for Ruby releases? Is there a good CI tool written
> in Ruby? Would Hudson be acceptable for doing Ruby stuff? Is JRuby or one of
> the other alternative implementations using something for CI that they're
> happy with?
>
>  I've been building up a shell script, mostly for personal use, so I can run
> the checks against various test suites. I attached an earlier version with
> my bug report #199 asking for patch reviews. I can mop that script up a bit
> and release versions so that others can run the full suite of tests
> on-demand from their  command line and or from a CI server. I've been
> building this as a shell script because it minimizes dependencies so that as
> long as the user has bash, svn, git, wget, tar and maybe a tiny number of
> other utilities, they can run it. Does this sound useful?
>
>  I also talked earlier about setting up a bunch of VMs running different
> OSes and running the test scripts against these, which would be a good way
> to catch platform-specific issues. Is there interest in such a thing?
>
>  However, if someone's already done this effort, it'd be good to know so we
> can take a look at it and possibly build upon it instead.
>

Ryan Davis is working on a system for this right now. Last I heard, it
is nearing completion.