(Student) Automatic Grading

[ncbrown1]

As a student, I can push my code to a GitHub repository in the course organization and have it automatically trigger a grading procedure, which generates a grade for me on the spot so that I can quickly see how I am doing on the assignment.

[ncbrown1]

Note: this can be accomplished by adding an organization-level webhook that is triggered on PUSH events. Anacapa will receive the webhook and check the repository name to see if it corresponds to any existing and valid assignment in the same organization.

Idea: If a valid assignment repo exists with the proper anacapa settings, but the Jenkins jobs don't exist, trigger those first and then trigger the grading job.

[ncbrown1]

Idea: Have an 2 persistent queues:

1) for grading jobs

• if the assignment master repo is being run on Jenkins, then wait until that is finished to grade a repo
• If a new student submission comes along, requeue them if they were already queued. 2) for jobs already dispatched
• Firing off Jenkins Jobs is an asynchronous action, so whenever we start a job, insert some metadata here about the job so that we can check for results later

Note: Heroku Redis is a free add-on

[ncbrown1]

queuing is unnecessary when using the Jenkins Notifications Plugin