This page is only a draft, pending discussion on the development mailing list.

This document proposes a number of improvements to the MantisBT build process, by introducing a structured build process used to validate code changes as they happen and to produce nightly builds.

Goals:

• Increased visibility of the build results and of their consumability
• Increased feedback speed regarding corectness of changes
• Larger testing coverage of the MantisBT codebase

Non-goals:

• Continuous deployment of the resulting artifacts
• Generating release artifacts , replacing the current release process