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----- Original Message ----- > From: Ben Reser <b...@reser.org> > To: Subversion Development <dev@subversion.apache.org> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, 26 January 2015, 18:59 > Subject: CentOS buildbot > > Seems that the machine that was running our CentOS buildbot has disappeared. > We can get a new one setup (probably a VM, not sure if the old one was > physical > hardware or a VM). > > But the question is now what do we want. The CentOS buildbot was running a > rather old version of CentOS, we actually had to install a few dependencies > manually (APR, serf) because the OS packaged versions didn't meet our > minimum > requirements. So the buildbot was acting somewhat of a test of minimal > requirements. > > Do we want to try and duplicate that or do we want a more modern CentOS? I think it's useful to have builders at both ends of the spectrum: minimal/oldest, and also bleeding-edge/all-fancy-options. Any reason we shouldn't request two VMs and maintain both? I can't see it being an unacceptable computing load nor administrative burden. - Julian
