Hi Bob, thanks for your hints!
> If it were me I would subscribe to the commit email mailing list > (assuming there is one, can set up one if there is not) then have it > automatically fetch and build whenever a new commit is pushed. Then > things would always be automatically built. And then additionally > have a periodic build regardless to catch up with any OS upgrades. > This would reduce the need for manual button pushing somewhat. The buildbot polls the savannah pspp git repository and starts a build after a commit and there is a nightly build for some targets. So as you say for the normal operation there are no push buttons required. >> I also think of the underlying server. It would be nice if I could give >> login access to the project members via authentication at savannah. > > I am not sure how to do this. Which literally means that I myself > don't know how to do this. But if other people had ideas then I am > sure something could be worked out. At my university we use an ldap server for this purpose. I have not looked into the github way of doing this. Thanks for your help! Friedrich