1:12 a.m.
Hello!
Things are moving fast... SyncEvolution is now on syncevolution.org. We
wanted to get this done quickly so that it could be announced as part of
SyncEvolution 0.9 beta 3, therefore there wasn't much time to discuss
the new site in advance.
Overall I'm happy with the result. I'm sure there will be some tweaks
necessary, in particular to cover 0.9. Right now the material is a
direct copy of the 0.8 estamos.de pages. If you notice something that
should be changed, please comment.
For the core developers, please consider a) whether you want to be
mentioned and b) how. I've already added some people just with their
names and a short summary of what they have done so far:
http://syncevolution.org/about/contributors
The mailing lists were also moved. I was told that this would be
entirely transparent (same subscribers, old email addresses and URL
remain valid, archive moved), but there were hickups. The @moblin.org
addresses still don't seem to work again, so if you want to post to this
list, please use syncevolution(a)syncevolution.org.
Earlier I had already added another mailing list which is copied on all
issue changes in Bugzilla, syncevolution-issues. The main purpose of
that list is to get the issues archived in a way that is visible to
search engines. People can subscribe, but if you want to follow all
issues, better create an account on bugzilla.moblin.org and "watch" the
"syncevolution AT lists.intel.com" account (" AT " replaced with @).
This allows filtering which changes should be reported by email.
I've had some discussions with the admins about listing the contents of
downloads.syncevolution.org and runtests.syncevolution.org (nightly test
results). The site runs under nginx, which supports directory listings
but isn't as flexible as Apache about it.
For downloads it works almost well enough, showing the content of
README.txt as part of the listing would be nice.
For runtests, much of the tweaking that went into estamos.de/runtests no
longer works, so reading the results is harder than before. Yongsheng
has started working on a conversion of the results into static HTML
pages, which would be useful to simplify navigation.
However, long-term I think it would be more productive to have an
interactive system which can answer queries that combine different test
results (over time, platform comparisons, ...). "Continuous integration"
systems [1] do that (and probably a lot more). We just need the
component which visualizes the results based on a simple data model of
"platform", "platform attributes", "test", "test
attributes", "test
result link", "success/failure/skipped" and can accept such results via
mail or HTTP POST.
Does anyone have an recommendations for such a tool?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration#Software
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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
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