Forum OpenACS Development: Re: A status report on OpenACS release management

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Posted by Jeff Davis on
Nima, automated things running out of cvs break and eat up time to fix. See joels testing post where he mentions:
One thing I learned from trying, semi-successfully, to maintain a test server at Collaboraid is that it is a daily job. Despite the automation, various things creep through in a daily automated rebuild that bring sites down for different reasons and sneak past any alarm detection you might have. Peter and Lars and I built a framework for distributed, automated checking, so that we can have a simple central dashboard even if some of the sites are hosted on different machines, and we need to get that working again. So this task is to manually check all test servers every day (over time this could be changed to alert-based checking), troubleshoot any problems, assign tasks to get problems fixed, and restore the test servers to functionality. Every day.