The Theme: The simplest build server that is designed explicitly to work with GitHub the website.
- Zero configuration data stored on the build server itself except for the OAuth token
- OAuthing to the site now gives us the token we need to clone down source code
- Build script URL is on GitHub, URL is given in the post-recieve hook
- Comes with script command that invokes a build on another server, for chaining build results (i.e. a build that needs to actually build >1 platform)
- Comes with script command to create a Release from a directory or a set of files
- Environment variables are set in the script's context to help it out (REPO_URL, REPO_SHA1, GITHUB_OAUTH)
- Whether pages require ACL checks, is based on whether the repo is public or private.
http://thebuildserver/post-recieve?build_via=https://github.com/github/ci/windows.cmd&sha1=686ac69
build_via- the script to use to build the reposha1- the SHA1 to check out
http://thebuildserver, which grabs an OAuth token and also displays build status in a friendly way