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Subject: Re: Continual benchmarking / regression testing?
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On 7 January 2014 18:01, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately, my framework is extremely incomplete.  It's not even
> good enough for internal use, much less a wider audience.  And I fear
> that my bosses won't give me any more time to work on it.  It's also
> written in Ruby and uses STAF to command slave nodes, which the
> FreeBSD community might not be excited about.  However, if there is
> any interest, I can ask for permission to share my design as a
> starting point for a more general framework.

I don't think I have the time+spare brainpower to learn Ruby (I'm a
Pythonista) but it would be interested to see the design you've
created.

I've looked at STAF before and I'm curious why you picked it? It
seemed a combination of being antiquated and an overkill to me...