On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Andrew Rist <andrew.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 11/14/2011 5:20 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> It looks like we have several options, described here: >> http://ci.apache.org/ >> >> Does anyone have an opinion on which one we should use? >> >> Although getting this to work across multiple platforms will be a big >> effort, we don't need to do it all at once. Getting a single >> platform up and running would not be very difficult, for example >> Buildbot with Linux. And we would benefit from even that. For >> example, this would enable non-developers to grab builds to test. As >> you've probably noticed, we've had a few people ask how they could >> help with testing. But without builds the only ones who can test are >> those who can build AOOo themselves. >> >> I'm poking around at the doc here: >> http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/current/full.html >> >> I've also signed up for the bui...@apache.org list. >> >> But I could really use some help to move this forward. So, if you are >> interested in helping, let me know. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Rob > > I've already gotten started on this and opened a Jira issue for creating a > Linux nightly on buildbot. > I have checked in a preliminary linux build script and I was working on the > patch to the buildbot cfg for AOO. > I was going to initially run the build, RAT, and some code analysis. Later > I was going to attempt to run QA tests also. > There has been discussion of working on the Mac build, and other options are > a Windows nightly (obviously) and perhaps a Solaris build. >
This sounds like a good plan. I saw your script in the JIRA issue. Would it be worth doing an svn update rather than a fresh checkout each time? (A full checkout can take 40 minutes). Or does that break a rule about storing state on buildbot slaves? > Andrew > >
