Archive for July, 2007
Web-Based PDE Builds, Part 2: Q&A
I received some questions from the guys in the ECF project about using my infra for doing web-based PDE builds, so I thought I’d digest them and post them here:
Q: When running a build from the web, why queue the command? Why not just exec() it directly?
A: Well, it depends on your infrastructure. On our [...]
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Web-Based PDE Builds
As a release engineer, one of my daily challenges is usability - making painful processes easier to use. Of course invariably the simpler a process is to the user, the more complex it is to set up.
Here’s a quick rundown of the 6 pieces involved in setting up a build:
website (php)
.htaccess
shell script (bash)
lockfile (txt)
lockfile watcher [...]
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