Eliot Miranda wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Keith Hodges <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
> <mailto:keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     The existing community development model works fine enough.
>
>     1. Submit changes as change sets to mantis.
>
>     2. Bob builds and tests the changes in a basic image, a dev image
>     and a
>     full image
>
>     While you need your changes, and await the release with your fixes
>     integrated into it, you can load them manually from Mantis.
>
>     3. When Bob builds the new release he automatically loads changesets
>     from mantis, and fills in the MC repositories together with commit
>     messages.
>
>     The result is an image that looks as though it has been managed
>     with MC,
>     but the work is submitted in changesets that we all prefer.
>
>     This is an open process, and you can see what is due for inclusion or
>     not by querying mantis.
>
>
> I just went to squeak.org <http://squeak.org> and followed community
> links and I can find no reference to Bob.  The things I want to be
> able to see and find easily are
>
> 1. sample images
On their way.... see ftp.squeak.org/3.11 for some initial examples where
bob is building the LPF image
> 2. list of packages loaded in the image
This can be be included in the metafile that accompanies every build.
Images also contain documentation of the bug fixes that have been loaded.
> 3. test results (name of class, number of green, yellow and red tests,
> and if possible the assertion that failed or the error message for
> each yellow and red test).
Sure... the results from TestReporter do that. I am working on it. I did
have some icons that you can add to apache to give you the colors.
> How do I get at this kind of info?  If I can't get at this then Bob is
> an abstraction I don't understand and can't trust.  If it is
> manifested then it needs to be findable easily from squeak.org
> <http://squeak.org>.
This info will be available wherever bob is running, bob is supposed be
runnable in a distributed fashion, some results are being synced up to
ftp.squeak.org however you can see my bob server at
ftp://squeak:viewpoints@bob.safeprayer.com/bob/output

Keith