On 10/31/2010 01:18:52 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
On 31 October 2010 01:25, Mike Witt <msg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess I don't really understand what this is all about. But I
> suppose that the major factor is that I simply wouldn't be available
> more than once in a while to perform whatever these administration
> tasks might be. That doesn't seem to factor in to the whole
> 24x7 idea.
>
> How much does it help if I simply take release candidates when
> they are made available, try to build them, and post the logs
> somewhere. Is that worth doing, or is it basically too late
> at that point?
>
> -Mike
Mike, you are confusing two issues.
1) If you want your own personal computer to be used as a buildbot
slave, it really needs to be on 24/7.
2) If you set up and maintained a virtual machine on boxen.math, then
the virtual machine would running 24/7, as boxen.math runs 24/7. That
however would require occasional maintenance from the administrator of
that virtual machine. You would probably need to clear out old builds
manually, check log files for errors etc, apply security updates etc
etc. That does not need you to be a system admin that is available
24/7 - only that the virtual machine is maintained such that it can
run 24/7.
I don't think I'm up to getting involved with the buildbot thing.
But I would like to know how much value there is in simply building
release candidates on my own machine (when I can) and then making the
resulting log files available. Would anyone be interested in seeing
these logs? Or would I just be wasting my time, and bandwidth on
the sage-release group?
-Mike
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