Automatically ship daily builds

[iloveeclipse]

I wonder if we can somehow automate the spotbugs build on github so after merging a PR it could upload generated "daily" build (and Eclipse update site) to the server?

[KengoTODA]

maybe we can use cron build supported by Travis CI.
https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/cron-jobs/

[iloveeclipse]

What about this: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/pages/?

Or we can automatically create tags on each merged pull request and copy the bits to releases: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/releases/

I must say I have no experience with travis at all so just guessing here.

[koppor]

In JabRef, we host our own server on ScaleWay and upload the builds via ssh to https://builds.jabref.org/. The source of the script is available at https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/scripts/upload-to-builds.jabref.org.sh

In case one does not want to maintain a separate server, the build artifacts from CircleCI could be a solution. Let CircleCI build the artifacts and publish the link to gh-pages.

In JabRef, we also use CircleCI for building binaries. See https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/wiki/CI.

[KengoTODA]

I tried to use GitHub Pages Deployment feature, here is diff: master...KengoTODA:62751c96

This is not so good because it generates huge commit like this. This is expected behaviour and we can see note in description page like below:

Deploying to GitHub Pages uses git push --force to overwrite the history on the target branch, so make sure you only deploy to a branch used for that specific purpose, such as gh-pages.

I will try to make encrypted SSH key or personal access token to push changes by git push command.