[Nix-dev] Travis Testing Needs Rethinking

Wout Mertens wout.mertens at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 06:09:22 CET 2016


Help on https://github.com/madjar/nox/issues/38 is appreciated methinks :-)

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016, 2:46 AM Herwig Hochleitner <hhochleitner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2016-02-14 19:44 GMT+01:00 zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com>:
>
>> What if master was always the latest successful hydra build ? People
>> could rebase on top and have cached builds. Nox could also have cached
>> builds.
>>
>
> +1 for having Travis build against the latest successful hydra build.
> Don't care whether that's channels/nixos-unstable or a repurposed master.
>
> This way, most packages timing out on travis, would be those that trigger
> mass-rebuilds, which need to go to staging anyway. It should make the flag
> much more useful.
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Wout.
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