The whole technical aspect sounds interesting. What are the actual programs that people have to run to accomplish the nightly builds? You have any links anywhere?
On Apr 10, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: A few folk are starting to build the infrastructure for a nightly build farm, to extend Al Sutton's groundbreaking work on creating downloadable SDKs out of the public Android repositories. It will take some time for us to get everything together, including working out the kinks in the Android development process itself -- see David Turner's post on this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/1e5d4f6dfef96c70 What we are looking for now are two types of volunteers: 1. If you would like to contribute time -- personal and CPU -- to building Android itself, sign up to operate a build slave. This basically means you'll provide a PC or VPS that can build Android from the latest sources on demand. "On demand" will be nightly, more or less. The more volunteers we get, the fewer times any given build machine will need to actually be doing a build. 2. If you are interested in running the buildmaster -- a BuildBot or Hudson server that coordinates the builds and publishes their results -- sign up for that. If nobody else signs up, I will run the buildmaster on the CommonsWare slice at Slicehost, and I will provide an initial build slave here at CommonsWare HQ. However, we could really use more build slaves. Also, I'm a rookie at running a buildmaster -- to paraphrase Hobbes, my work on that will be nasty, brutish, and slow. If you're better at it and want to take on that task, sign up! Eventually, of course, we'll need people to play with the build results, but right now, a buildmaster and build slaves are what's needed. If you are interested in either role, or if you think there is some other near-term role you'd like to play in this effort, reply on this thread or contact me off-list, and let me know specifically what you'd like to do. Thanks for everyone who's provided advice to me on this topic so far, and thanks in advance for everyone who joins the build squad! -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
