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CI server wish list

I am interested in hearing folks thoughts on what they like\dislike about the current CI server offerings both commerical and OSS (Java, Ruby or .NET) and what they would love to see in a CI product? To start you off here is a few of mine.

  • One click copy -  copy one build process into a new process in one click
  • Pluggable Everything © - what it says on the tin.
  • Support beyond XML as a meta format, both input and output
  • Order the build process how I want it
  • Do build process's how I want it
Posted: Sep 08 2008, 09:25 PM by andrewstopford | with 5 comment(s)
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Jeff Lewis said:

This may be more of SCM wishlist item, but:

Either this:

www.jetbrains.com/.../continuous_integration.html

Or 2 stage commit.  Where I commit to one repository and it only gets pushed to the other if everything builds.

# September 8, 2008 5:19 PM

tobsen said:

Distributed build / Build Farm support for Crusecontrol would be nice.... Maybe I missed a contrib-project?!?

# September 8, 2008 5:32 PM

josh said:

how about supporting a build engine that's easier than a nant script.  something like Boo Build Script.

www.ayende.com/.../Introducing-Boobs-Boo-Build-System.aspx

-j

# September 8, 2008 6:46 PM

Seth said:

I simple way to pause listening for a particular source change.  Maybe I'm in the middle of a committing a whole bunch of stuff but it's going to be several commits or something.  I want to be able to tell the server to stop listening for a commits for awhile.

# September 9, 2008 11:52 AM

meisinger said:

i have been using CruiseControl.Net (ccnet) for a long time now and find that there are very few things that i want or need.

most of what is wanted or needed has a tendency to show up early on in the config and setup process but once it is up and running... i don't touch it

i would think that the best thing to have would be to have an SCM and a CIS combined so i can pick and choose what goes into a build (think selecting change lists or revision ranges) and deploy it to an environment

# September 10, 2008 10:20 AM