Hi Brecht, this is really a good idea, I am experienced in using and maintaining different virtualizationproducts in big companies (Virtual box, iESX, KVM, Xen). If you need any advice/help, you can always contact me.
Jeroen Bakker On 13-3-2011 20:19, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: > Hi all, > > In the meeting Ton proposed to do official automated builds, that are > built and uploaded every day or every few hours. These should > effectively be the same as release builds, and could even be used as > official releases. > > To start, some questions for platform maintainers: > * Do you have time to set up or help someone else set up such a system > for your platform? > * Is now a good time to do it, with 2.57 is in 2-3 weeks, or should we > do it after? > * Are there any pitfalls we should be thinking of? > * Do you prefer to run such a system on your own computer or on a server? > > We can set up a server with virtual machines, for example with > virtualbox it should be possible for someone to create the machine > locally, upload it, and further maintenance can then be done using a > remote login. Alternatively builds could run locally on system from > developers or other volunteers. > > The advantage of having them on a remote server is that it would be > easier for multiple developers to fix builds and make releases, but > for a single platform maintainer it may be more convenient to just run > such a thing locally. > > We could also start to use a Tinderbox system. Hudson/Jenkins was > brought up, Buildbot also seems nice to me. It seems to be quite a bit > of work to configure and maintain such a system, so for now I'd like > to focus on simply getting automated builds. > > Thanks, > Brecht. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers