Re: [Treebase-devel] Fwd: Hudson build is back to normal : Treebase-dev #92

[Rutger V. <rut...@gm...>]

> On dev only, not production. I can dig through the mailing list archives,
> but if my recollection is correct, this was discussed here and agreed to by
> Bill.

Don't worry, I'll take your word for it.

>> That means I'm going to have to change my commit behavior, I tend to
>> commit files individually so that I can give more specific messages to
>> explain the changes in each of them.
>
> I've shared that concern. I still think we shouldn't change commit behavior;
> just be prepared that sometimes the Hudson builds will fail while you're in
> the midst of something.

Ah, ok, I guess I'll learn to live with the occasional complaint from
Hudson. I don't commit code that, as a whole, is broken (...well...),
but I do push the commits out in a series.

> In part this is also a result of our not better exploiting the capabilities
> of version control. It's arguably not the best idea to do development of
> features or changes that amount to more than "atomic" bug fixes on the main
> trunk.
>
> If we were on git, this would probably mostly solve itself, as branching and
> switching between branches is just so easy that there are few excuses not to
> do it. Merges back to master would then contain all the changes that as a
> whole would not break the build. But it's not that svn doesn't support
> branching and merging.

Yeah, it does support it, but just in a goofy way. The extra folders
it creates aren't particularly pretty. I'm really starting to like git
- perhaps at some point we might move the code base to github? Bit of
a pain because we do use some of the supporting infrastructure that
sourceforge provides: the wiki, the mailing list(s), the bug tracker.
Mmmmm.

>> Do I have a login on hudson?
>
> I don't know - ask for one if you need one (do you?).

I don't know, what would it tell me beyond a stack trace when the dev
won't build at a given point in time? I don't really need to see that,
probably.

Rutger

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