Re: [PATCH 2/2] t/README: Document the Smoke testing
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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- 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