Hi, On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 02:33:23PM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: > Constructive thoughts appreciated in reply here.
Budget for 2-5 of our Hackfest VMs[1] to always be on standby for someone wanting to do a fast build, and provision for Cloph to be able to hand out log-ins at a quick ping on IRC. Rationale: - Cloud instances are already faster than even the fastest, most expensive and newest notebook and unlike the latter they do not run out of battery if you start compiling or do a 'make check' e.g. on an airport. - with cloud instances getting cheaper and notebook performance has been stagnating in recent years, this trend will be accelerating - building on a fast remote machine will encourage the test-oriented mindset that we aim for To extend on the last point: Yes, logging into a remote machine via VNC/X11 is somewhat cumbersome. However, that is exactly encouraging breaking bad old habits (ad-hoc manual testing with UI-interaction) in favour of good practices: verifying your code and changes to work with tests that do not need manual interaction on a UI. These tests ultimately will also allow to test the code/changes with CI on all platforms. So in short: Remote builders instances for devs encourage good practices, are faster than what is possible locally right now and are -- if we set this up right -- significantly more flexible and faster to get to a developer in need. Best, Bjoern [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfests/VMs _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
