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jay
jay

Reputation: 12495

On github, what does build status mean?

Especially if a rails gem, for example, has "failing" as its build status?

Upvotes: 17

Views: 6574

Answers (3)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324128

It is the result of a build scheduler able to communicate back to GitHub the build result, through the Commit Status API, using the Repo Statuses API.

And starting April 26th 2013, you can see that same build status on your GitHub repo branch page:

build status on GitHub repo branches

Starting April 30th, 2013, the API endpoint for commit statuses has been extended to allow branch and tag names, as well as commit SHAs.

Upvotes: 2

Carlos Ramirez III
Carlos Ramirez III

Reputation: 7434

This is a feature of the Travis Continuous Integration service.

http://about.travis-ci.org/docs/user/status-images/

Upvotes: 2

ksol
ksol

Reputation: 12235

I think what you're talking about is the build status image provided by travis-ci (or maybe any jenkins setup, I don't know). It is used to inform users of the build status of the master branch of the repository, allowing them to know if it safe to refer to the repository on their Gemfile without having to setup and launch the test suite.

Upvotes: 8

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