Hi,
I just stumbled over something I think could be really cool for us. I noticed
quite a lot of build in the ASF Jenkins that match the
PreCommit-{ProjectName}-Build name pattern, so I used Google to find out what
these are.
It seems on the ASF Infra Jenkins they implemented a mechanism to auto run a
build for a patch. It seems as If the build is run by checking out the latest
version, applying the patch and running all the tests. At the end it seems they
report back the status of the build. I think this could be really useful for us
especially with the Maven build up and running.
This way we could encourage people to contribute much easier and we would
reduce the amount of manual work for accepting patches quite a lot. After all
If I see a pull request for which Jenkins confirms that it doesn't break
anything if I apply it, I would be more willing to spend time accepting pull
requests.
Here's a pointer to that feature:
https://wiki.apache.org/general/PreCommitBuilds
Chris
