[Biopython-dev] Coverage metrics

[Fields, Christopher J]

> On May 25, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Tiago Rodrigues Antao <tra at popgen.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 May 2015 09:52:51 +0100
>> Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Perhaps we need consider having one "online" target
>>> in the TravisCI build matrix (and use that for coveralls)?
>> 
>> Maybe this would be a good time to overhaul the travis-ci
>> configuration? Interestingly this is a place where docker and travis
>> intercept: the script calls to download the binaries of external
>> programs can easily be ported across making things much easier.
>> 
>> Tiago
> 
> By all means give that a go - the TravisCI configuration will
> work on personal branches fine (that's how I've tried things
> prior to pushing them to biopython/master).
> 
> Peter

We have some basic coverage metrics running for BioPerl; we did run into timeout issues w/ coveralls.io but addressed them by reducing some of the requirements.

Chris