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Comment by coderdude | Hacker News Reader

I must admit, I had no idea what Travis CI was until today. I have never heard that name before. Today there have been two submissions for this Python/Perl support they're adding (the first one had 15 up-votes in 13 minutes). Now this one is here.

Is this some super-popular but yet not very well known (to me, at least) piece of software? Because it sure seems like they've got some pretty hardcore fans.

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Travis is an open source CI system for running open source projects on. It uses a distributed setup to run the tests of projects in a sandboxed environment. The VMs also provide multiple lang versions so you can test your library against several ruby/python/perl/node/erlang/php versions without even having to think about it.

In short, Travis makes CI testing easy and fun for OS projects.

It has certainly piqued my interest. Oh, and I just did a quick look around too and realized that yes, many people know about this software. :)

Seeing how everything is opensourced, how easy is this to get up and running on an intranet? Is that at all a goal of the project?

It is one of the eventually goals, but Travis has a lot of moving parts due to its distributed nature. We do plan to make in-house installs easier in the future.

It is pretty heavily integrated with Github. And at least last time I checked it was challenging to get it to use private Github projects. I believe the feature is on their roadmap, though.

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