Qt: open testing infrastructure

w00t

Not sure if this is really the right place to post it, but I thought I'd drop a note to some thoughts/work I've been doing which is relevant to development on Qt itself (not applications):

"Take a read here.":http://blog.rburchell.com/2010/06/qt-open-testing-infrastructure.html

mgran

Hi, the latest blog post by Thiago on Qt Labs could indeed be relevant to your blog post, have a look:

"http://labs.qt.nokia.com/blogs/2010/06/03/qt-and-open-governance/(http://labs.qt.nokia.com/blogs/2010/06/03/qt-and-open-governance/)":http://labs.qt.nokia.com/blogs/2010/06/03/qt-and-open-governance/

w00t

Hi Marius,

Thanks for the reply. I saw it already - my comment is the first on the list. It is good news indeed, and I hope to assist as things proceed :-)

alexbravo

Robin, it would be nice if you could turn the link in your first post into an actual link. It would be nice if more people could read your post.

When you say

Qt internally use a similar system, but theirs is not (yet?) public.

Do you know of any plans of them opening it? Last time I talked to Thiago about it, he was not indicating any such plans. It was about 9 months ago though...

alexbravo

Do you have any updates about that project?

Are there more info about it rather than your post in June?

w00t

Hi Alex,

[quote author="AlexBravo" date="1278816665"]Robin, it would be nice if you could turn the link in your first post into an actual link. It would be nice if more people could read your post.[/quote]

Just because you asked so nicely.. done :)

[quote author="AlexBravo" date="1278816665"]When you say
> Qt internally use a similar system, but theirs is not (yet?) public.

Do you know of any plans of them opening it? Last time I talked to Thiago about it, he was not indicating any such plans. It was about 9 months ago though...[/quote]

It will have to be, sooner or later. I suggest you read up on the discussions about open governance:
"Thiago's initial announcement of open governance":http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010/06/03/qt-and-open-governance/
"Open governance mailing list announcement":http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010/07/02/open-governance-mailing-list/

If you're interested in shaping the future of Qt, I suggest you get involved there.

Essentially, Qt is moving towards being an open driven project, and as a result, the open infrastructure I talked about is going to have to happen.

The work I did on testing infrastructure for merge requests is also being worked on by some people at Nokia, so I've largely decided to not reinvent the wheel, and instead, to fit in with their efforts.

See:
"torarne's buildbot project":http://github.com/torarnv/buildbot