Engage nightly build broken

[Antranig Basman]

"I cannot tell a lie" - it was I who broke the build. In my confused 
mind when going home last night I had been imagining that the WAR build 
was not used except near release time and that it might not be too 
destructive to have it broken for a day... but that was clearly a silly 
idea! I guess this does point towards the merits of the "git-like" 
technologies where it would be possible to make a "going-home" commit 
without either branching 3 projects or breaking things for everyone :P

Thanks to Michelle for catching and fixing this problem, and apologies 
to all.

Antranig.


On 26/01/2010 10:01, Michelle D'Souza wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> It looks like a recent commit has broken the nightly build. This is a
> particularly bad time as we have people who are trying to write test
> plans and designers who are ensuring that as the developers furiously
> churn out code we stay true to the designs. Developers, please test
> before you commit - and don't forget to keep the stand alone config file
> up to date. Just because something works for you when you run it from
> Eclipse does not mean it will work on the nightly build. We are in the
> unfortunate place where we don't have comprehensive unit tests to catch
> regressions. That means that there is a greater responsibility on
> committers.
>
> This is meant to be a reminder to all of us. I haven't yet looked into
> what is broken but will do so now. And if it's me who broke the build I
> apologize in advance.