Comments on: CI Cage Fight – build-o-matic

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By: simpsonjulian

simpsonjulian — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:19:43 +0000

Rob, nice touch. I’d like every CI server to have Gravatar support

Matt: I’m with you on cutting a build. We should never, ever, do that by hand.

By: Matt Craighead

Matt Craighead — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:45:51 +0000

Another option is to simply build on every single commit. Computer time is cheap; human time is expensive. Plus, there are other benefits to having a build for every single commit. For example, you never have to “cut a build” for QA — once the changes are committed, it *will* get built, and QA can simply grab the build when it completes.

By: Rob Sanheim

Rob Sanheim — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:55:51 +0000

We display the offending developers on runcoderun via gravatars (we don't curently do any sort of binary search to pick out offenders during commit pile ups, though). For example: Failing build for rspec