Hi!
"Kristian" == Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@knielsen-hq.org> writes:
<cut> Kristian> One problem right now is that we do not really have much in the way of build Kristian> host resources. Just a couple of machines kindly donated by community, some of Kristian> them also doing other work. And the Valgrind host is currently my desktop Kristian> machine. So we do not currently have unlimited build capacity, but we can Kristian> probably get more as community steps up or we buy machines ourselves to Kristian> satisfy any future needs. For now, you can use work@askmonty.org for the valgrind builds. (We just need to be able to temporarly stop builds on this when we want to run benchmarks).
One could argue that this could be achieved by autopush, but autopush only uses one platform, doesn't save/keep track of test run results, etc. My experience at Sun/MySQL shows that pushbuild (and I suppose buildbot) over a separate branch is much better. It runs different tests on different platforms, pedantically records test results (where everyone can see them), etc etc.
Kristian> I did discuss with Monty several times the idea to have some kind of autopush Kristian> functionality in the Buildbot, so one could push to a staging tree, and if Kristian> compile and test passes on all hosts, it will be pushed to main trees Kristian> automatically. But it is not something I have started working on at the Kristian> moment. Yes, that would be nice! Kristian> Also, Don Kehn, whom I know from when we were colleagues, has mentined that he Kristian> would like to do some work on Buildbot. It would be real nice to get more people involved with this! Regards, Monty