Re: [PATCH 2/2] t/README: Document the Smoke testing

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 2, 2010, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=EuTD0M3eNo+PXW7Z2Ra2yzf-i+L4DFQVg8JZ7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C5732CE.10906@gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 21:04, A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 08/02/2010 04:54 PM, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>>
>> Heya,
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 15:24, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason<avarab@gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Git now has a smoke testing service at http://smoke.git.nix.is that
>>> anyone can send reports to. Change the t/README file to mention this.
>>
>> Can't we run this somewhere a little less "shabby"? I'd hate to
>> introduce Yet Another Official Git Site (I'm really glad for example
>> that the Git Wiki is now on kernel.org). Is it not possible to move
>> this to git-scm.com, kernel.org, or something like that?

Do you not like the domain, that the domain's A record points to a Linode box, or both?

I don't mind where a smoke server gets hosted, I just want it to be there. But someone's going to have to host it and maintain it.

Unless someone else wants to do that it's going to have to either be at a box I control, or someone else will need to give me shell access.

Of course just changing the domain would be trivial, just a matter of someone setting up an A record somewhere, or delegating a zone to me.

An alternative would be to change how this works, e.g. making submissions go by E-Mail to a public list, or having smokers push them to public Git repositories which would be registered somewhere.

But that'd require more development and setup work. The current system isn't optimal, but it works. It can always me moved somewhere else later if smoke testing for Git takes off.

> And what's on the site tells us almost nothing about the tested systems.

Can you be more specific? What information do you find lacking at http://smoke.git.nix.is/app/projects/smoke_reports/1 ?