Re: [sage-devel] Development tasks

2017-11-10 Thread Vincent Delecroix
Hi, The aim of the patchbot is to test trac tickets (http://trac.sagemath.org/) in order to help reviewers. Indeed, patchbots apply patches (formally these are git branches from https://git.sagemath.org/) and run the Sage testsuite (which are mostly doctests). For Sage there is a pool of pa

Re: [sage-devel] Development tasks

2017-11-10 Thread Andy Howell
Vincent, That sounds interesting too. Years ago I deployed a buildbot for our company, so I'm familiar with it. It has probably changed since then. I thought that buildbot could used to apply patches. Is the idea behind patchbot that it is simpler system dedicated to trying out patches at the re

Re: [sage-devel] Development tasks

2017-11-10 Thread Vincent Delecroix
Dear Andy, You could also help improving the patchbot (written in pure Python) https://github.com/sagemath/sage-patchbot For example: * fixing some false positive * better support for testing of optional packages * logs should not go in SAGE_ROOT/logs/patchbot/ Would you be interested? V