software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and
testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are
pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the
failure. The guilty developer can be identified and harassed without human
intervention. By running the builds on a variety of platforms, developers
who do not have the facilities to test their changes everywhere before
checkin will at least know shortly afterwards whether they have broken the
build or not. Warning counts, lint checks, image size, compile time, and
other build parameters can be tracked over time, are more visible, and
are therefore easier to improve.
Features:
* run builds on a variety of slave platforms
* arbitrary build process: handles projects using C, Python, whatever
* minimal host requirements: python and Twisted
* slaves can be behind a firewall if they can still do checkout
* status delivery through web page, email, IRC, other protocols
* track builds in progress, provide estimated completion time
* flexible configuration by subclassing generic build process classes
* debug tools to force a new build, submit fake Changes, query slave
status
* released under the GPL
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