Comparing Taskotron to Jenkins

I've gotten several questions in the last few weeks about Taskotron and how it compares to Jenkins. With the rate at which I'm getting that I'm getting these questions, it's a topic well worth exploring. Unfortunately, "How does Taskotron compare...

Taskotron Update - June 2015

I've been rather silent about Taskotron progress as of late - mostly because we're still not ready to start accepting tasks from people. Despite the lack of noise, we have been making forward progress and are still on track to support more types...

Current State of Depcheck and Paths Forward

Depcheck is one of those things which is deceptively complicated. On the surface, it's such a simple thing: "figure out if the dep tree is broken" but reality makes the problem much more difficult and messy. We've recently deployed a rewrite of...

Taskotron Has Replaced AutoQA

It's getting on 2 years since I started working on the demo bits that would become the first demonstration of a system that would come to be known as Taskotron. Since that time, the project has gone through a name change, a lot of planning and...

Taskotron Status, Questions and Answers

It's been a while since I've written anything about Taskotron and we've been pretty quiet in general, so it's about time that changed. There will be more posts about Taskotron details in the next several weeks but this one is more of an overview....