On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Dan Nessett dnessett@yahoo.com wrote:
Not sure I get this. Here is what I understand would happen when a developer checks in a revision:
- A script runs that manages the various regression tests run on the
revision (e.g., parserTests, PHPUnit tests, the Selenium-based regression test).
- The Selenium regression test needs a URL to work with. There are a
fixed set of these defined in httpd.conf.
There's no need to have a fixed set of URLs; just as with Wikimedia's public-hosted sites you can add individually-addressable wikis dynamically at whim without touching any Apache configuration. URL rewriting, or wildcard hostnames, or whatever lets you make as many distinct URLs as you like, funnel them through a single web server and a single codebase, but have them running with different databases.
en.wikipedia.org and es.wikipedia.org don't need separate entries, and neither would test1234.r56789.wikimediatesting.org and test1235.r56789.wikimediatesting.org
+ Before assigning one of these to the regression test run, there is a
requirement that it isn't currently busy running a regression test for a different revision. So, you need resource access control on the URLs.
If each test run has its own wiki, there's no need to control access -- no other tests would be trying to access it.
-- brion