[Adium-devl] Switching to Xcode 3

[Jordan S.]

I definitely agree on that second point - separate profiles for release
versions and nightlies should be a requirement ... old preferences can just
create too many issues, and switching back and forth between trunk and
release branches is always a bit sketchy.
Jordan

On 10/26/07, Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>
> >
> > On Oct 26, 2007, at 8:03 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Oct 26, 2007, at 5:25 AM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
> >>
> >>> Nightlies were a distraction the last time we did them.
> >>
> >> I'd like to think we're in a much better place now. Please try and be
> >> open minded and avoid the knee jerk "it didn't work before" answer.
> >
> >
> > I'm still of the opinion that no matter how much testing we put out
> > here, we're going to have problems with it, and it's going to add
> > more stress, more maintenance, more user interaction, more
> > everything. I don't think the user interaction thin is such a bad
> > thing, but everything else is really just a lot to deal with, and we
> > already have a lot going on.
> >
> > Instead of suggesting this, why don't we do this in baby steps? Let's
> > see if we can get the automated building down to a fine art that
> > nobody has to maintain? If we can do that, that would alleviate one
> > of my concerns. What do you think?
>
> Sure. If we are going to do this, here are my requirements:
>
> - Builds must be automatically generated
> - There must be an automatic update path to keep nightly testers on
> the current build
> - We should add some robustness code to our "profiles", to keep people
> from running the same profile with multiple copies of Adium, or design
> a way to allow users to safely have more than one instance of Adium
> use a single profile. Right now I think such behavior is undefined,
> particularly if the two versions of Adium are different.
>
> I am proposing we do nightlies right away, but I do think that it is a
> good goal to work towards. I believe it will relieve a lot of pain in
> terms of QA and regressions.
>
> Do other people think those are reasonable prerequisites? I"m
> particularly curious to know what folks who -1'd my earlier post think.
>
> -Colin
>
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