Definition of Continuous Integration (CI): Martin Fowler
Currently Johns Hopkins uses Bamboo , a CI product from Atlassian, makers of Jira and Confluence. The support JHU provides for this service is "best effort".
The DSpace Sourceforge Subversion repository is polled each hour for changes (commits). If the repository has changed, Bamboo will check out the project and attempt to build it, logging the success or failure of the build. If the build succeeds, the build artifacts (jar files, war files) will be saved for a period of time.
The build reports are available on the web as a traditional website or as RSS feeds:
mvn clean test compile package -Pdistributions,all |
mvn clean test |
We plan to download the build artifacts on a nightly basis, and automatically deploy the build artifacts to a test server, say nightly.dspace.org. The goal is to ensure that the build artifacts are viable (e.g. the xmlui war is packaged properly), and to test the deployment process.