The OS X slaves (especially PPC) are very valuable for testing. We have an intern who could help keep the build-bots going if you would give her access to those machines.
Thanks for being willing to offer them. -Travis On Feb 16, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Chris Ball <ceb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Buildbot is used by some big projects (e.g. Python, Chromium, and >>> Mozilla), but I'm aware that several projects in the scientific/numeric >>> Python ecosystem use Jenkins (including Cython, IPython, and SymPy), >>> often using a hosted Jenkins solution such as Shining Panda. A difficult >>> part of running a Buildbot service is finding hardware for the slaves >>> and keeping them alive, so a hosted solution sounds wonderful (assuming >>> hosted solutions offer an adequate range of operating systems etc). >> >> A quick look at Shining Panda suggests that you get no coverage for >> anything but Linux, which is a good start but rather limiting. IME by >> far the most annoying part of a useful buildbot setup is keeping all >> the build slaves up and working. It's one thing to set up a build >> environment in one OS, it's quite another to keep like 5 of them >> working, each on a different volunteered machine where you don't have >> root and the person who does isn't answering email... the total effort >> isn't large, but it's really poorly suited to the nature of volunteer >> labor, because it needs prompt attention at random intervals. (Also, >> this doesn't become obvious until after one's already gotten >> everything set up, so then you're stuck limping along because who >> wants to start over and build something more maintainable...) >> >> If anyone has existing sysadmin resources then keeping build-slaves >> running is a place where they'd be a huge contribution. > > Yup - keeping the slaves running is the big problem. > > We do have various slaves running here that at least are all > accessible by me, and Jarrod, and (at a pinch) Fernando, Stefan and > others. > > These are: > > XP (when I'm not using the machine, which is the large majority of the time) > OSX 10.5 > OSX 10.4 PPC > Linux 32 bit > Linux 64 bit > > These are all real machines not virtual machines. I'm happy to give > some reliable person ssh access to the buildslave user on these > machines. They won't necessarily be available for all time, they are > dotted around campus doing various jobs like being gateways, project > machines, occasional desktops. > > See you, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
