[Biojava-l] any volunteers to script a nightly biojava build tester?

[Chris Dagdigian]

Hi folks,

Despite the fact that I'm doing this about a year later than planned 
(long story involving our network connectivity, IP address hijacking and 
colocation facility  omited :) I'm in the process of bringing up one of 
the Netra T1 servers that was donated to us by Sun Microsystems last year.

This system is meant to replace our existing anonymous CVS source code 
server including the viewcvs.cgi web front end. The current anonymous 
cvs box runs OpenBSD on AMD Athalon and was meant to be a temporary 
solution.

One of the nice things about rolling out this box is that we now have an 
up-to-date Solaris8 system to work on.

I'm offering access to this system to anyone from the biojava camp that 
would like to take on the task of building some sort of "did today's 
commits break biojava?" nightly test procedure.

Automatic build testing of our live cvs repositories is on the list of 
"neat" features we would like to be doing across all of the bio* 
language-based projects. I may take a stab at writing the bioperl tester 
time permitting.

Any takers? Would nightly build testing be useful for biojava developers 
to have?

-Chris