[Scons-dev] On CI

[William Blevins]

On Jan 25, 2016 6:57 AM, "Russel Winder" <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Independent of any CI Bill is running with Buildbot, I think we should
> make use of any and all CI that Atlassian and others connect to
> BitBucket, in the same way TravisCI etc. connect into GitHub.
>
> Having three or four CI instances all monitoring GitHub repositories
> and running tests on every commit and every pull request provides a lot
> of very useful support.
>
> Whilst BitBucket is now clearly a Git resource, it is still providing
> Mercurial services and the pull requests and general management is
> effectively as good as GitHub. If BitBucket can do issue handling, pull
> requests, repository management, and CI (the big one), more or less as
> well as GitHub, then there seems no reason to abandon BitBucket. In
> fact exactly the opposite, if we can avoid moving from BitBucket now,
> that is a good thing.
>
> Switching from Mercurial to Git however is a completely different
> issue. In the short term there is no big deal per se (other than most
> of the core developers want to use Git not Mercurial!). However it is
> clear Atlassian are pitching BitBucket as a Git repository management
> system. In effect, as people at O'Reilly said in 2006-ish, Git has won
> the DVCS war. Mercurial is though a contender left in the main game,
> all others are now just history with niche markets. (Sad, I liked
> Bazaar.)
>
> I am going to start using the issue tracker on my Python 3 SCons port,
> that William is now also tinkering in, to see how it feels. Also I will
> try out as many CI systems as I can connect in so as to run Python 2.7
> and Python 3.4 tests for each commit and pull request. I am expecting
> some glitches compared to GitHub, but I am confident Atlassian will be
> fixing things.
>
> I note immediately that the BitBucket issues system is not JIRA. I am
> assuming it is a stripped down, loss leader version to sell JIRA
> instances.
>

We may be able to get free Jira by applying open source. Atlassian
otherwise will not give out non-free Jira to the plebeians.
> --
> Russel.
>
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