Re: buildbot

From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Gollub <gollub@b1-systems.de>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: buildbot
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:54:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A542671.8030604@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907072253.28333.gollub@b1-systems.de>

On 07/07/2009 11:53 PM, Daniel Gollub wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 09:47:29 pm Avi Kivity wrote:
> [...]
>    
>> If someone can help with setup, or even better, volunteer to setup and
>> host the buildmaster, we can concentrate more on patches and less on
>> breakage.  Buildbot even has a 'try' command which lets submitters test
>> patches.
>>      
>
> I would volunteer to setup and maintain the buildmaster. We could also provide
> some buildslaves for x86 and x86_64.
>
>    

Thanks.

> Unfortuatnely i'm completely new to the buildbot itself. Only did in the past
> brief checks of the documentation and feature overview. I already maintain
> some different continous build testing infrastrucute (based on ctest/cdash).
>
>    

It doesn't have to be buildbot; anything that provides similar 
functionality and is reasonably well documented can be used.

> But i'm very interested in getting in touch with buildbot and to support the
> kvm project. So it might take some days before the buildmaster instance is
> running productive. So if there are no other takers i would start setting up
> the buildmaster host.
>    

Great.  We can start with qemu-kvm.git (and qemu.git), as getting 
buildbot to understand how the external module works is not going to be 
trivial.

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