Homebrew’s CI evolution

1 · Mike McQuaid · Sept. 29, 2017, midnight
When I started contributing to and then maintaining Homebrew in 2009 it had no continuous integration, automated testing or binary packages on the project. Contributors would create an issue with a link to a commit in their fork, Max Howell (@mxcl, Homebrew’s creator) or a maintainer would test the change locally and then push it to Homebrew’s master if it worked. One day Max and I were chatting and he floated the idea of having binary packages in Homebrew for things that took a really long time...