Re: [PATCH 2/2] t/README: Document the Smoke testing

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 22:05, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 17:00, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you not like the domain, that the domain's A record points to a
>> Linode box, or both?
>
> The former.
>
>> I don't mind where a smoke server gets hosted, I just want it to be
>> there. But someone's going to have to host it and maintain it.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> Of course just changing the domain would be trivial, just a matter of
>> someone setting up an A record somewhere, or delegating a zone to me.
>
> John, is it possible to have smoke.git.kernel.org (or such a domain)
> either point at a server Ævar controls, or to give him a shell account
> there? The point is to have http://smoke.git.nix.is/ hosted on a more
> "Gitty" domain.

Note that that may be a bit premature, since Junio hasn't commented on
whether he wants this at all yet.

>> An alternative would be to change how this works, e.g. making
>> submissions go by E-Mail to a public list, or having smokers push them
>> to public Git repositories which would be registered somewhere.
>
> I like the idea of having it be a public Git repo since that would
> probably make it easier to do maintenance on the repo (e.g., revert
> "vandalism"), but there still needs to be a frontend of sorts
> somewhere :).

Note that all the data is already in Git[1] it just isn't used as the
submission mechanism.

1. http://github.com/gitsmoke