From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263478AbTHXL5H (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Aug 2003 07:57:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263470AbTHXL5H (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Aug 2003 07:57:07 -0400 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:38664 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263478AbTHXL4w (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Aug 2003 07:56:52 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:56:50 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: John Newbie Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Night builds. Message-ID: <20030824115650.GA937@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: John Newbie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:43:38AM +0400, John Newbie wrote: > Hi guys! > Is there any night builds farm for Linux project? > As far as I know many sw companies (even ms) have such. It greatly help to > hunt and collect BUGs. > I think it is very easy to write apropriate scripts (or software) to do > regular builds and testing. > Correct me if I am wrong - most of the bug-reports are from > geeks/sysadmins/developers. > Why not to use automation provided by computers? > > If my idea is bad (or discussed earlier) just skip it. John Cherry from OSDL has something like you propose. It build each night + for each release. Only releases are followed with extensive documentation (log's). Go via http://www.osdl.org | Lab Activities | Linux kernel stability to find it. There is also links to other similar efforts for other architectures. Sam