[Pantoto-code] Build and Test methodology

[Bellave J. <bel...@co...>]

I am interested to learn how you are doing software builds in your projects. There are many open source and commercial tools that come and go. At the high level, I want to understand the (longer term) strategy for a build process and the tools.  I would also like to know which specific methods/tools are being used to automate testing and builds. There are tools such as cruisecontrol, gump, buildbot etc. that could be used and Ant seems to be quite popular.

When people work on different parts of a complex project, it might make sense to consider a distributed build methodology wherein the people doing the individual module builds specify the metadata and the rules that tell a build scheduler what/how to build. The buildbot open source project seems to have something to offer in this area that might work for pantoto.

Jayaram