ISDA Continuum Interface

As of this writing (12dec07), the Thalia backend source code is being continually built by an instance of Apache Continuum running on isda-build1.mit.edu.

Notable Features:

• Builds are done continually, within a few minutes of any checkin to the Thalia Subversion repository.
• An additional build is done nightly at 4am, and is subsequently deployed to the Thalia development environment, thalia-dev.mit.edu.
• Email is sent to the thalia-dev on any build failure and subsequent success.
• The Continuum server has privileged access to the subversion repository, and checks out directly from it.  Once checkin is complete, no further action is necessary by the developer for the build to take place and for eventual deployment to the Thalia development server.
• The software in use is Apache Continuum.

Note that we expect to transition our build server to the [Atlassian Bamboo|http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/] technology in late 2007 or early 2008, for better integration with our wiki and Jira installation; it is planned to provide all of the same functionality and more.