[Buildbot-devel] Ticket #289 : Nightly build

[Marcus Lindblom]

franchan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Some thought on this ...
> Sure this is not apply to all kinds of developments but
> nightly builds are useful as well for checking that the compilation/tests
> still pass after the platform has had some kind of upgrade to it's system.
> (like a new compiler or a new xxx-dev package for a library that's
> used in the project).
> For instance it seems like ubuntu regularly release upgrades.
> 
> It happened in the past that at release time,
> we noticed that tests did not pass anymore/source was not compiling, ...
> after applying a bunch of upgrades to the system ...
> On such days I wished that I had nightly tests that
> would have catched this during normal development period
> and not during a stressful release time ...

I think both cases have their uses.

If there are many projects and limited testing resources, doing nightly 
large tests only for changed repos is good.

The weekly can then do it all.

Cheers,
/Marcus