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

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 2, 2010, 22:28 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 22:05, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 17:00, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you not like the domain, that the domain's A record points to a
>> Linode box, or both?
>
> The former.
>
>> 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.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> 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.
>
> John, is it possible to have smoke.git.kernel.org (or such a domain)
> either point at a server Ævar controls, or to give him a shell account
> there? The point is to have http://smoke.git.nix.is/ hosted on a more
> "Gitty" domain.

Note that that may be a bit premature, since Junio hasn't commented on whether he wants this at all yet.

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>> 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.
>
> I like the idea of having it be a public Git repo since that would
> probably make it easier to do maintenance on the repo (e.g., revert
> "vandalism"), but there still needs to be a frontend of sorts
> somewhere :).

Note that all the data is already in Git[1] it just isn't used as the submission mechanism.

1. http://github.com/gitsmoke
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Message 9 of 14 in “Smoke testing for Git”
  1. 0/2 Smoke testing for GitÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 2, 2010
  2. 1/2 tests: Infrastructure for Git smoke testingÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 2, 2010
  3. Avery PennarunAug 2, 2010
  4. 2/2 t/README: Document the Smoke testingÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 2, 2010
  5. Sverre RabbelierAug 2, 2010
  6. A Large Angry SCMAug 2, 2010
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 2, 2010
  8. Sverre RabbelierAug 2, 2010
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 2, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederAug 2, 2010
  11. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 2, 2010
  12. A Large Angry SCMAug 2, 2010
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2010
  14. Sverre RabbelierAug 2, 2010

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