How about some gamification? :) Continuous integration allows devs to gage whether they're coding too fast for quality conditions. Can we introduce a penalty points system to get them to slow down?
E.g. 3 pts / offence, mandatory 3rd party code reviewers after 15 over two releases cycles? > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] > Sent: 07 May 2014 01:04 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: [PROPOSAL] Using continuous integration to maintain our code > quality... > > Hi All, > > This is something I brought up a long time ago but really didn't have the > resources to get it all up and running until now. Throughout the past year, > Edison, Prasanna, Amogh, Bharat, Koushik, Talluri, and others have been > chipping away at it. At this point, we finally pull together a continuous > integration setup that we can use to make sure that CloudStack master and > the currently release branch are always stable. This is getting pretty close > to > be completed and we like to share it with the community in hopes that we > can reduce/eliminate that problems we've seen with our recent releases. > Currently, the physical hardware are hosted by Citrix but we'll be more than > willing to donate the work to infra when that's all settled. > > This does require effort from the community to make a change in their > development process. These steps are detailed at [1]. I like to get feedback > on what everyone think about this. > > What have we done: > - We replaced a large selection of the BVT tests to run with the simulator > instead of actual hardware. This shortens the duration of each BVT run. > Today, a BVT that runs tests for XenServer and KVM completes in 30-40 > minutes. > - We will run the new BVT on master and the current release branch on a > continuous basis. > - Developers can use Jenkins to ask BVT to be run on their branch so they > can know it won't break the continuous integration before they merge to > master and the current release branch. > > Please have a read and let me know what you think. > > --Alex > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Development+P > rocess
