On May 10, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > jek3> One concept discussed was to have a machine farm under > OpenSolaris > jek3> auspicies. Probably not as simple as it sounds (to prevent > jek3> abuse), but certainly possible. > > Well, we need a build farm anyway, so that external committers can > build > and test on both x86 and SPARC prior to putback.
If this farm-to-be also hosted various other OS's, this farm might be viewed by various different communities as a resource to leverage, rather than a special "task" for supporting Solaris. Sure, every OSS developer has a machine or two. But how many of them have a diverse set of processors and OS's? I presume that virtually any farm has excess cycles, so being able to host and run test suites on a best effort basis shouldn't be terribly pricey (other than the extra costs of having "flash" images of various OS's loaded from time to time). > Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman at Sun.COM | khbkhb at gmail.com Sun Microsystems Microelectronics Group | sun IM: khb AIM: kbiermank 5430 Nassau Circle East | 650-352-4432 voice+fax Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113 | sun internal 68207 http://blogs.sun.com/khb | 303-997-2749 <speaking for myself, not Sun*> Copyright 2007
