[Nix-dev] Continuous Integration

[Ericson, John]

Support for hydra to build github PR has been added for a few weeks now in
https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/pull/280 . What's the next step for actually
using this with nixpkgs and hydra.nixos.org?

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Ericson, John <john_ericson at brown.edu>
wrote:

> > S3 and Hydra PR support
>
> I asked Domen earlier on IRC, but in case anyone else is interested,
> is there any way to contribute to these? If this will go most the way
> towards continuously updating channel(s) I'll give an arm and a leg.
>
> > IMHO it's very often a fault of some builds or tests failing (sometimes
> > transiently). > IMHO it's very often a fault of some builds or tests
> failing (sometimes
> > transiently).
>
> Well my proposal very much does matter if honestly-failing
> builds/tests are a problem---let's not have one bad commit hold up
> good commits. If most of the failures are transitive however, well
> that's very unfortunate. I hear bad things about timeouts but would
> love more details on the transitive errors we face and what can be
> done about them.
>
> John
>
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