[RFC] Platform champions

[Martin Pool]

On 7/4/07, Nicholas Allen <allen at ableton.com> wrote:

> Just an outsider making a suggestion here.
>
> I would have thought it would be possible to have PQM only running on
> one platform as it does now but to have other machines and platforms
> perform the automated test suit as often as possible (most likely not
> every merge request but as soon as they finish they pull again and check
> the next set of changes they got from the pull). When it finds a problem
> it could inform the dev team automatically. So the merge request has to
> pass the current PQM test suite which gives it a pretty good chance of
> passing on other platforms too. I don't think it would even be necessary
> to purchase the hardware if virtual machines were used.
>
> So PQM becomes a kind of sane gateway that reduces the likelihood of
> problems on other platforms and another machine (or machines) check the
> trunk test suit as well. I know it's a simple idea but wouldn't
> automating the process like this help and massively increase the chance
> that a given release works on all platforms?

Yes, I think that'd be a good idea.  We could either use buildbot or
something else.  I think Ian was looking into it but if you'd like to
try and set it up that would be great.  Nick I think you have a
solaris machine don't you?  Even just running the test suite of
bzr.dev every week or so and reporting problems would help.

-- 
Martin