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NEW POST: More Developers Wanted!

CareBear — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:56:16 GMT

You have been added to the project as a developer, and Glenn Haworth has been upgrade to Coordinator :) Welcome!

amccool wrote:
Hi,

Automaton has proved very useful in our organization. I would like to assist with bug fixes and enhancement.

Thanks,
Alex

NEW POST: Subscribe to events and user permissions

jsimont — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:11:32 GMT

I am getting this same error when trying to Enable Events. Does anyone have any thoughts?

NEW POST: More Developers Wanted!

amccool — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:43:44 GMT

Hi,

Automaton has proved very useful in our organization. I would like to assist with bug fixes and enhancement.

Thanks,
Alex

NEW POST: installation Documentation

pandu1212 — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:18:29 GMT

Hi i am new this Forum. I am exited looking in to this engine feature, i am planning to host this Engine in my maichne , for that i searched for intallation document . there some videos but they are not opening. any one can suggest where can i found document for installtaion
Thanks In Advance.

NEW POST: Is this project alive?

CareBear — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:09:39 GMT

There is some progress in the background, but I have personally been very busy with a job change and moving to a new city. Moving into our new appartment on sunday and hopefully there will be some time for this project around later September.

The current plan is to support and extend the CI-build functionality that comes with TFS 2008, there is lots of cool things that can be done on top of that platform. We would like to integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Web Access and avoid having a seperate web application for Automaton.

NEW POST: Is this project alive?

ongle — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:21:05 GMT

NEW POST: Subscribe to events and user permissions

elles — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:21:51 GMT

I have a problem. I installed Automaton (nice program, btw) but I can’t get event notification to work. Installation went OK, I can connect to Team Foundation Server, can see projects and builds, can manually run builds.

But, when I click on Enable Events I get this error:
"SecurityException: TF50309: You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation.
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Proxy.EventService.SubscribeEvent(String userId, String eventType, String filterExpression, DeliveryPreference preferences) +50
..."

Also clicking on finish after completing configuration wizard gets me this error:
"When this wizard is completed, you can navigate to settings to individually configure and manage the applied settings.
Failed to apply configuration settings.
TF50309: You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation."

Any thoughts on which permissions user account needs to be able to complete settings wizard and subscribe to events?

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tanyaz — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:28:20 GMT

irrelevant

NEW POST: Is Email notification supported?

tanyaz — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:17:52 GMT

It would be nice to have an option to get e-mail notification only for failed builds.

NEW POST: Builds not happening automatically

GlennHaworth — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:49:54 GMT

SteveOUTS wrote:
I noticed that when I check in a file, it causes a GET to happen immediately from $/ProjectRoot to the /temp directory. I'm not sure of the purpose of this GET, but it seems to be very inefficient because it gets ALL source under $/ProjectRoot, and not just the branch where the checkin occurs. Also, because it starts immediately it doesn't seem equipped to handle situations where multiple changesets are generated in a short period of time (a delay before the GET initiates would seem to make sense there). Finally, the Team Build type has its own GET to an entirely different location (the TEAM Build sources directory), so this just seems to add additional overhead and time to our CI builds.

Perhaps some of these issues can be addressed in a future release?

Hi Steve,

Automaton does perform a GET why I'm not sure at the moment, but I shall found out.

I think a user specified delay between builds similar to how CC.net works would be a good addition so I'll create a work item for it.

Thanks

Glenn.

NEW POST: Builds not happening automatically

SteveOUTS — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:56:48 GMT

Well, I got the builds to happen automatically - I may not have been waiting long enough previously. Part of the problem is that the TFS projects we use are large (over 1.1 GB), and structured like this:

$/ProjectRoot/Branch1Name/Project1
$/ProjectRoot/Branch1Name/Project2
...
$/ProjectRoot/Branch1Name/ProjectX
$/ProjectRoot/Branch1Name/Lib
$/ProjectRoot/Branch1Name/Shared
$/ProjectRoot/Branch2Name/Project1
...
$/ProjectRoot/Branch3Name/Project1
etc.

I noticed that when I check in a file, it causes a GET to happen immediately from $/ProjectRoot to the /temp directory. I'm not sure of the purpose of this GET, but it seems to be very inefficient because it gets ALL source under $/ProjectRoot, and not just the branch where the checkin occurs. Also, because it starts immediately it doesn't seem equipped to handle situations where multiple changesets are generated in a short period of time (a delay before the GET initiates would seem to make sense there). Finally, the Team Build type has its own GET to an entirely different location (the TEAM Build sources directory), so this just seems to add additional overhead and time to our CI builds.

Perhaps some of these issues can be addressed in a future release?

NEW POST: Builds not happening automatically

SteveOUTS — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:45:55 GMT

Can someone explain exactly how automaton knows which paths to monitor to fire a build from a checkin event? We use custom Team Build types, and the SolutiontToBuild items are not set until the AFTERGET target. I thought that perhaps automaton may use the solution path to determine which directories and subdirectories a checkin event should cause a build, but when I tested this by adding some dummy proj files to the SolutionToBuild item in TFSBuild.proj, it still didn't cause a build when items were checked in.

We don't use solutions in some of our Team Builds because we use Delphi 2007 (msbuild compatible). I was able to get Team Builds working for this code base, but for some reason Automaton doesn't seem to recognize checkin events for these build types.

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

NEW POST: Project Management

CareBear — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:01:40 GMT

Hello all developers!

As you understand by now, I have little time left to do project management of Automaton. I will try to improve in the future, but I was hoping that each and one of you can take some individual responsiblity and take on tasks on your own.

I'm experienced with the Scrum project process which requires strong individuals, and I'm sure all of you are that type of people. Please feel free to move tasks and features in the Issue Tracker to your own names, and start coding.

Don't be afraid of doing things wrong, it's much better that you all contribute than doing nothing. If there is any problems or questions, feel free to nag me on Live Messenger or here on the forum.

NEW POST: More Developers Wanted!

GlennHaworth — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:15:07 GMT

Hi,

If you're still looking for more developers then I would like to help out.

Thanks

Glenn.

NEW POST: Disable CI by default

gharris2 — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:41:34 GMT

I would second this question. I also find the default annoying. Maybe an option in WebConfig if not an option elsewhere.

NEW POST: Disable CI by default

troyschneringer — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:58:28 GMT

Is there a way to disable continuous integration by default when a new build is created?

I am using Automaton to connect to a TFS server and not all the project owners want to use continuous integration. When a new project is created it has CI enabled by default and some people aren't happy with this. Is there a way i can specify the default to no enable CI?

NEW POST: Not Picking up Subsequent Builds

purekrome — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:24:20 GMT

I also have noticed this, unfortunately -- and it's been happening for a long time :( (or not happening, i should say).

NEW POST: More Developers Wanted!

CareBear — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:23:42 GMT

MEwer wrote:
I am interested. I just downloaded and set up a copy of Automaton on our in house TFS server. If I am going to use and extend the system it seems fair that I should contribute back to the project. So, I jumped on one of the tasks in your list and I have put together a rough integration of the Wilco.SyntaxHighlighting component with the source code viewer in Automaton that I would like to go ahead and send in.

Contact me and I will email the change set to you. If you like it and want to add me to the project I would love to help.

- Mark -

That sounds great, thank you! I know Wilco very well, I've meet him a few times in Amsterdam and I've known him online for years. He has started working a lot with Microsoft recently :)

Anyhow, I have added you to the team, welcome and hopefully we'll see some great things from you.

NEW POST: More Developers Wanted!

MEwer — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:08:59 GMT

I am interested. I just downloaded and set up a copy of Automaton on our in house TFS server. If I am going to use and extend the system it seems fair that I should contribute back to the project. So, I jumped on one of the tasks in your list and I have put together a rough integration of the Wilco.SyntaxHighlighting component with the source code viewer in Automaton that I would like to go ahead and send in.

Contact me and I will email the change set to you. If you like it and want to add me to the project I would love to help.

- Mark -

NEW POST: Not Picking up Subsequent Builds

paltman — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:20:30 GMT

I have added a second build type to Team Build and it is now being displayed in the Team Builds list on the dashboard, however, when I make changes in the source tree and check in, automaton still does not kick off the build.

- There are no filters in the subscribed events that automaton setup.
- There are POST to the automaton webservice so I know that the TFS Notification is working as excepted.

What could cause this? Is there any way for me to peek into what automaton is doing once it receives the request to figure out why it's not calling out to start the Team Build.

Also, this got me thinking, how does automaton know which build to execute? I have two different solutions within different paths of my Team Project source tree, with corresponding Team Build types (does it inspect the Team Build Type mapping xml?).