Apps like Hudson, various flavors of CruiseControl etc are nice but for true and serious CI I only consider two:
CRUISE http://studios.thoughtworks.com/cruise-continuous-integration
TeamCity http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/
- Rebe
--- On Thu, 10/16/08, bruce <bedouglas_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: bruce <bedouglas_at_earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: Continuous Integration Question
> To: "'David Weintraub'" <qazwart_at_gmail.com>
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 11:56 AM
> Hi List...
>
> And thanks for the initial replies. I've looked at a
> number of the apps that
> some have mentioned (anthill/hudson), but none very deeply
> (my bad!).
>
> I've provided a little more information on exactly what
> I'm looking to do..
>
> Again, any thoughts/pointers are appreciated!
>
> ---------------------
> Basically, I'm looking to create a crawler/parser app
> that's going to
> parse/crawl course/class schedules of US colleges. As such,
> each college
> will have a separate python/perl script for this action. I
> need a web based
> app to manage the
> create/development/test/release/run(production) process
> for all the scripts, for each college. So, I'd want to
> be able to
> manually/automaticly schedule the testing/run process, as
> well as track the
> overall status of the given scripts as they move through
> the system. So,
> there'd need to be some kind of "workflow"
> process/function, (perhaps as
> simple as moving from one dir to another, based on the
> success of the parent
> process).
>
> I'd also like something LAMP based, witha web-based UI
> to manage the entire
> process. It would also be useful if the management app
> CI/SPM also provided
> feedback/status on the various dev/production machines in
> the system.
>
> Here's a basic "flow/dir" structure that
> I'm considering:
>
> initial_script_dir
> -used to store the script for the college that's
> being developed
> -once script is created/released, it goes into the
> testing folder for the college/semester
>
> testing_dir
> -used to house the scripts as they're being tested.
> -the idea is to test/release a script for one semester
> at a time
> -the dir houses the college_dir for each college
> -the college_dir, contains the actual script being tested
> for the college (separate dir, for each college)
>
> -college_dir
> contains the script being tested for the semester
> for the college
> once script has been successfully tested/released,
> it's promoted/moved to the actual
> college/semester_dir
>
>
> college_dir
> -for each college, contains the parsing script in
> the semester dir
> -each semester_dir contains a copy of the script for
> that semester
>
> semester_dir
> -a separate dir for each semester, based on actual
> month/day/year
> -contains actual production script
>
>
> The idea is that as a script is created, it gets
> tested/checked, and passed
> through to the next phase of the system. I'm looking
> for an app that has
> underlying function, that can be somewhat modified for my
> needs. A Web based
> UI would also be good in order to manage the overall
> process.
>
> Thoughts/comments are appreciated...
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Weintraub [mailto:qazwart_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:38 AM
> To: bruce
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Continuous Integration Question
>
>
> I think many (if not most) of us on this list have, and
> used
> Subversion with some sort of CI/SPM system.
>
> I use Hudson for my CI environment. We use "Ant"
> and "Maven" which are
> meant for Java projects, but Hudson also allows you to
> execute custom
> scripts. So, you could have a shell script (or Python
> script) that
> runs some tests and packages your build.
>
> Hudson automatically will run a build on each check in. You
> can also
> adjust it to wait a certain period of time after a check in
> in those
> cases where you have to do multiple checkins.
>
> Hudson is very fast, usually starting a build with in a
> minute of a
> check in, and it is very easy to configure. The main
> developer is also
> very quick to make fixes and incorporate suggestions. I
> highly
> recommend you take a look at it:
> <https://hudson.dev.java.net/>.
>
> --
> David Weintraub
> qazwart_at_gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:15 AM, bruce
> <bedouglas_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > In doing some research, I've come across various
> apps that deal with the
> > concept of Continuous Integration/Software Production
> Management, which
> > apparently is the process of being able to manage the
> process of
> > creating/developing/building/testing/releasing
> projects/apps using
> > repositories/build processes/etc... The CI/SPM
> process, also apparently
> > allows for the implementation of workflow
> processes/procedures for
> managing
> > the various apps/projects while being developed.
> >
> > I've got a project in mind, that's going to
> require lots of little python
> > apps that will need to be developed/built/tested/run
> multiple times, and
> to
> > be recreated for each semester. (the apps deal with
> course schedules for
> > colleges). Subversion would of course be the
> repository of choice, and
> since
> > it appears that a number of the CI type of apps
> I've seen use SVN, I
> figured
> > that I'd see if anyone here has actually
> used/implemented a CI/SPM system,
> > and what your thoughts are.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
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