On 6/21/16, 3:39 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote:
>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
Sounds good to me. Thanks for looking into it.
-Alex
