[Users] automatic check of testsuites?

[Alexander Beck-Ratzka]

On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 09:57:23 Ian Hinder wrote:
> On 29 Mar 2011, at 03:01, Luca Baiotti wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > by reading the minutes I started wondering whether there is again a
> > mechanism to check the testsuites regularly and automatically on
> > different machines, like the mechanism that Thomas Radke had created.
> > I read briefly the Einstein Toolkit website, but did not find this
> > mentioned.
> 
> I have set up something which runs nightly on my workstation and tests the
> ET thornlist with both versions of Carpet as well as some of our private
> thorns.  It is by no means perfect and would need quite a bit of work to
> make it useful.  We should have something "official" which runs on each
> machine.  I suspect one barrier to working on this is the hope that
> simfactory will one day be able to run testsuites, and that that would be
> the best infrastructure to use for such a project.  Unfortunately, nobody
> has the time to put the required work in.  Are you volunteering? :)


I would be interested in doing this. However, I would need some 
instructions...

Cheers

Alexander