Jan, On Dec 31, 2012, at 12:11 PM, jan iversen wrote:
> excuse me I did NOT say that anybody did a bad job!!!!! on the contrary I > think a lot of people do a real big job !!!! I simply try to make the job > easier. but I do understand when a polite question is unwanted. How did my answer to Andrew imply any of the above? > > sorry for suggestion a possible improvement that will not happen again. Please keep asking questions. You suggested that we use one of the ASF supported tools like Continuum. Please see http://www.apache.org/dev/services.html#build which lists, Continuum, Buildbot, Gump and Jenkins. Andrew answered that we are using one of ASF supported tools - Buildbot. A lot of projects use it - http://ci.apache.org/builders Note that the Apache CMS also uses Buildbot. I was thanking Andrew explicitly because he is generally silent in his work. Happy New Year! And THANK YOU JAN for your hard work! Your contributions are appreciated! Regards, Dave > > Jan i > Den 31/12/2012 19.23 skrev "Dave Fisher" <dave2w...@comcast.net>: > >> Hi Andrew, >> >> On Dec 31, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Andrew Rist wrote: >> >>> >>> On 12/31/2012 2:09 AM, janI wrote: >>>> Is there a reason why we use our own buildbot and not one of the infra >>>> supported ones, like e.g. Continuum. >>> We /are/ using the ASF buildbot infrastructure. So I'm kind of confused >> by the question. >>> check http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/ >>> Also, the decision to go with buildbot, vs maven or something else in >> the ASF ci quiver was due to the complexity of our build. >>> Add to that the strange gymnastics we have to do on Windows (Herbert >> will attest to the strangeness!!) it is pretty much the only option as I >> see it. >> >> You and the rest of the buildbot team do a tremendous job! >> >> Best Regards, >> Dave >> >>> >>> A. >>>> >>>> Sharing servers with other and having other people maintain the build >>>> routines should be to our advantage. >>>> >>>> Or do I see life in the wrong light ? >>>> >>>> rgds >>>> Jan I >>>> >>> >> >>
