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Thu, 08 Sep 2005

Continuous Sin Looks Intriguing!

I saw a link to Sin today and I couldn't help but check it out! And I think I like it!

Get your minds out of the gutter everyone! Sin is a Continuous Integration product.

It's got two interesting ideas in it.

First, everyone pushes code to a branch. The Sin system itself compiles (and maybe runs test?) the new code, and after the new code is validated, it's automatically moved over to the "main branch". This means your main code tree can never be non-compiling. Most CI systems notify you when your code breaks and they want you to fix the problem. This one does that as well, but it doesn't promote the code to the production level until it sees that it's clean.

Very nice concept!

The other intriguing feature is that it's distributed. Each of the nodes that does the validating is stand alone. It uses SOAP to communicate between nodes and spread the work out. They claim it scales linearly with the hardware.

Again, a very nice idea!

However the Sin web page was very thin, so I'm asking the community... is anyone using Sin (the product, not the moral concept). ;) Does it really scale? Do you like it?

Let me know!

Jared

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