[Zope-dev] How to update the ZTK KGS (was Re: Working KGS tool! (was Re: IRC discussion about testing))

[Jan-Jaap Driessen]

2009/8/14 Benji York <benji at zope.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jim Fulton<jim at zope.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> ...
>>> One question, and I know I'm late in on this so feel free to point me at
>>> previous discussions, but say the KGS uses some.egg 1.0.0, a bug gets fixed
>>> in some.egg and 1.0.1 is released. Does a whole new KGS need to be cut or is
>>> there some process for testing and supporting, says,
>>> 1.0.0 <= some.egg < 1.1.0 ?
>>
>> The KGS should not support ranges IMO.  It should be updated as new
>> versions are released. It should also be tagged when updated.
>
> +1
>
>> We need to agree on the the process for updating the ZTK KGS.  Here's
>> a rough sketch of what I think we need.
>
> The outlined approach sounds good to me.  It will give us the
> opportunity to run tests on all supported platforms before changes hit
> the trunk of a particular package.
>
>> - When a developer wants to update a project version, they check out
>> the test branch, make a local version change and run the tests. If the
>> tests pass the check the change into the test branch.
>
> There is the minor concern that the test and trunk branches will get out
> of sync.
>
>> - We maintain windows and linux buildbots (or equivalent) against both
>> the test branch and trunk for Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6.
>
> I assume we'd have OS X buildbots as well (if someone will volunteer
> them).
>
>> - When buildbot tests pass on all platforms and Python versions, we
>> merge tested changes to the trunk.  Note that the buildbot output
>> needs to record the svn revision # tested.
>
> By "buildbot output" do you mean simply the fact that all tests passed
> on all platforms?
> --
> Benji York
> Senior Software Engineer
> Zope Corporation
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I would like to volunteer OSX buildbot slaves, buildbot master if necessary.

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