beginning CI processes

If you were to make a recommendation to a development team as to the first thing they should do to begin to embrace CI-what would be the first thing you would recommend? (assuming that they already use CVS)

If you were to make a recommendation to a development team as to the first thing they should do to begin to embrace CI-what would be the first thing you would recommend? (assuming that they already use CVS)

If you don't have an automated build, create an automated build in Ant or Maven as soon as possible and commit the scripts to CVS. You should be able to build on any machine (within reasonable constraints). The next thing is that each developer/pair needs to commit all of their code changes at least once a day to get the true benefit from CI.