[top posting] Thank you for this update! :)
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Andrew Rist <andrew.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > I wanted to give an update on the buildbots, as this is a question that > keeps coming up. > > * We've received assurances that the Mac buildbot is coming. Long > story short, the current mac hardware is a bit long in the tooth and > we would kill everything on it if we added our builds to the current > machine. We are waiting for real hardware in the form of a Mac Pro > which will enable us to have multiple virtualized mac bots, giving > us our own environment that can be set up for AOO. The machine > should be ordered by the end of the year - bot should come up early > next year - ish... > * We are also waiting on a CentOS bot to create our standard Linux > build. This has been requested and is in the works, and Jan has > agreed to bring this up in discussions with infra. I am hoping we > can have this for the 4.1 release timeframe. > * FreeBSD bot - we have a new freebsd bot and it is slowly moving > toward building without errors. If anyone has suggestions for > fixing issues on there, please post to dev and we'll move that > forward. We are currently stuck on Hunspell - > http://ci.apache.org/builders/openoffice-fbsd-nightly/ > builds/91/steps/configure/logs/stdio > and > http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/buildlogs/fbsdn/ > log/unxfbsdx.pro.build.html > * The hung process issue with the windows buildbots seems to solved > now, and has not been a problem lately. > * Currently the Windows bots are failing - but this seems to an issue > of svn getting out of sync, I'm cleaning up the bot and restarting > the machine after some updates - I expect this to clean up the > current issues. ( > * Snapshots - both linux and windoze are currently having issues in > terms of the size of files that the build creates. The standard > buildbot directory upload routine zips the directory, uploads it, > and unzips at the destination. Our directory of install bits has > gotten too large and we are running into an exception on this > step. (On long term fix is to create our own custom directory > upload code for build bot - but that is another discussion...) The > short term solution is to split the snapshot build into two builds > (possible in a single flow) and build half the languages in each > build - this should get us around the space issue. > > That's all for now > A. > > > > On 11/13/2013 10:01 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Glenn Harvey Liwanag < >> glennharveyliwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I can try building the thing on my Mac OS X if that's what you're looking >>> for. It's my only computer right now and I use it for school so I have to >>> know first the average build time and the instructions to get the whole >>> thing done without academics interfering with the work. >>> >>> Thanks for this offer! Resources used for building are dependent on your >> system, but typically it would take about 2 hours for a full build. >> >> Information on how to obtain the source and a link to the Building Guide >> can be found on the project source page: >> >> http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html >> >> Please let us know how this goes for you. >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Regarding Jürgen's comments on a recent thread -- >>>> >>>> http://markmail.org/message/v5zli2np67qv5ryz >>>> >>>> Since CentOS 5 is our reference distribution for delivered Linux >>>> >>> binaries >>> >>>> (I did not know this!) -- and I am assuming this distro might remain as >>>> >>> the >>> >>>> reference going forward, does it make sense to try to move forward to >>>> set >>>> this up as a buildbot. I know wokr had already started on this. Can >>>> >>> someone >>> >>>> give us an update? >>>> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6217 >>>> >>>> I don't know CentOS, but having about 18 years in various *nixes HP/UX, >>>> Solaris, RedHat, SuSE), I could probably help assuming I could work in >>>> command line only to deal with this. >>>> >>>> On the MacOSX front, the latest update indicates we don't have hardware >>>> >>> :( >>> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4902 >>>> >>>> Any suggestions? Volunteers with equipment to dedicate to this? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>> ------------------------------------- >>> >>>> MzK >>>> >>>> “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, >>>> Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” >>>> -- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax >>>> >>>> >> >> > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” -- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
