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"Rich Braun" <richb at pioneer.ci.net> writes: > In 2013, I changed jobs and am faced with the same toolchain (but this time on > a django/python stack instead of java/tomcat; the sooner I can evict PyPI's > 'pip install' from the building the happier I and everyone else will be!). > For whatever reason, Jenkins or an equivalent build server hadn't yet been > implemented so I've got a greenfield project and authorization to yank out > whatever I want to yank out (assuming I can persuade developers to go > along....;-) > > Right now, developers are expected to spend their first days (perhaps a couple > of weeks) wrestling with getting a couple of VMs set up with vagrant on their > MacBooks, dealing with permissions issues, and using that mess of code to > install other masses of code on a dozen different Amazon EC2 instances. Jenkins is pretty cool for system builds, but I'm not sure how well it works for developer build & test builds. Unless you have Jenkins set up such that each developer has their only build chain I still feel (as a developer) that I need more control over my local build & test prior to "commit/push". I.e., I want to be able to do a "local" build and run my own local tests and debugging before I push my changes to a place where others pick them up. I have not seen a Jenkins install/configuration that supports that. Jenkins is great for building feature branches, release branches, and running automated packaging and testing. But I don't think it works well for a developer build+test cycle where you might need to run through a dozen or two compile & test cycles to make sure you've fixed your bug. In short, I think developers still need their own build (and test) environments locally. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
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