[Cython] New hosting

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
>> Robert Bradshaw schrieb am 27.04.2015 um 20:15:
>>> We also have travis.ci,
>>> which isn't as configurable as jenkins, but may be good enough. (The
>>> biggest deficiency is that it probably wouldn't allow for building and
>>> testing Sage regularly, or benchmarks, this is the one thing that we
>>> may need to find/provide custom hosting for.)
>>
>> ... and it won't easily allow us to track the CPython development branches
>> and build against them. A really neat feature of our Jenkins server was
>> that it could nicely store away pre-built artefacts for later reuse on the
>> same machine, such as a series of CPython branch builds, and just happily
>> rebuilt them regularly on external changes. That totally helped spotting
>> integration problems as early as possible, including bugs on both sides.

That's a good point.

> Some of us use scikit-learn's rackspace account for that.  I'm sure if
> you ask Olivier Grisel nicely, from scikit-learn - he'd let you use it
> too.
>
> We use travic-ci encrypted tokens to push artefacts like wheels up to
> the rackspace CDN, and then pull them down again for testing.
>
> Can point you to relevant stuff if you are interested...

If we go down this route, for sure.