Ronald Schmidt wrote:
A while back I across the web page: RFP: Parrot needs better smoke
reports (at url:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?rfp_parrot_needs_better_smoke_reports).
After reading the requirements for "Queryability" I decided to try to
write some web query forms and reports that fit those requirements.
This is exactly the problem space that Smolder is supposed to solve. The
Smolder install for parrot is located at:
http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/smoke_reports/8
You can send reports to it via "make smolder_test". I was going to let
this simmer for a while with the core developers and make some
improvements as they need them. Then it was my goal to replace the
current "make smoke" with this.
I've been meaning to update that wiki page to point to the progress
we're making toward this. I should also write up how Smolder already
accomplishes those goals (well, the ones it does accomplish).
The data is collected by scraping the pages at
http://smoke.parrotcode.org and, while the accuracy of the data scraping
has been checked and is believed to be quite good, there are still some
known issues.
Smolder uses TAP, so no need to scrape web pages. And we expose that TAP
for download if someone wants to analyze it further with some other
tools. It also uses SQLite, so if we decide to move this install over to
a TPF owned box (or a box that just has parrot related smoke info on it)
we can even expose the SQLite file itself for downloading/quering.
--
Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP
