Build farm

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Maybe some sort of automated distributed build farm would be a good
>>idea. Check out http://build.samba.org/about.html to see how samba does
>>it (much lighter than the Mozilla tinderbox approach).
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>>We wouldn't need to be as intensive as they appear to be - maybe a once
>>or twice a day download and test run would do the trick, but it could
>>pick up lots of breakage fairly quickly.
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>>That is not to say that more intensive testing isn't also needed on
>>occasion.
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>Check the archives on this, as its been hashed out already once at least
>... I think the big issue/problem is that nobody seems able (or wants) to
>come up with a script that could be setup in cron on machines to do this
>... something simple that would dump the output to a log file and, if
>regression tests failed, email'd the machine owner that it needs to be
>checked would do, I would think ...
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If there's general interest I'll try to cook something up. (This kind of stuff is right up my alley). I'd prefer some automated display of results, though. A simple CGI script should be all that's required for that.

cheers

andrew