From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-02-02T04:46:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] tinderbox 1.0.0 Released

On 2/1/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2007, at 08:36, Tim Pease wrote:
> > On 1/31/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> >> tinderbox version 1.0.0 has been released!
> >
> > Does tinderbox have a set of self tests to ensure that the sandbox
> > environment is sane?
> >
> > A few of my gems are failing on some targets because of file
> > permissions not being set properly -- i.e. I set a tmp directory to
> > 0555 permissions and test to see if it is writeable; some targets
> > report the directory as being writeable :(
>
> Links?

Well, I'll have to link to the space between my ears :/

Turns out I was trying to delete a directory in my teardown when I
still had an open file in there. Poor test cleanup on my part.

>
> > As a corallary, how do we contact the owner of a target to let them
> > know their tinderbox is not configured properly? There is no contact
> > information on the firebrigade site for target owners.
>
> I need to throw in an email, but I'll probably keep it private.  You
> can email me, and I can figure out if its a Tinderbox bug, or a
> problem with the target's configuration.  If it is a problem with the
> target, I can email them and straighten things out.
>
> I went with a soft launch to find these things out, since I knew
> there'd be things I missed (like testrb and --program-suffix).

Yeah, testrb was the other problem I was seeing.

Again, many thanks and accolades for setting this up.

TwP