Hi all, It's been more than four months since I sent this call for contributions, and there are still no Windows builders configured for the OpenAFS buildbot setup. It seems that the time to prepare a patch removing Windows support from the master tree is arriving, given the apparent lack of community interest in supporting Windows builds.
If anyone had started to prepare a Windows builder to contribute but got stuck and was waiting for input from me or someone else, my apologies for the oversight; now would be a good time to send a reminder about the inquiry. -Ben On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > Hi all, > > The automated buildbot builder for Windows that performs a test build of > each code submission to gerrit before that code can be merged into the > tree has been disabled; please see the forwarded message below. That > builder was previously donated by Jeffrey Altman and provided tremendous > value to the OpenAFS project over the years; thank you Jeffrey for having > donated these resources for so long. > > It is my opinion that in the absence of a gerrit-triggered windows > builder, the OpenAFS code for windows will very quickly bitrot and become > unusable. The development environment for Windows imposes constraints not > found on Unix systems, and most of our developers are unfamiliar with > those constraints, so without a way to automatically enforce them before > merging commits, the windows development constraints will quickly be > violated. > > If you are interested in OpenAFS continuing to function on the Windows > platforms, I urge you to contribute resources towards a functioning > Windows buildbot builder. > http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git;a=blob;f=README-WINDOWS;h=4f9af252f51677dd49e32c4af4411bd96eed53c9;hb=HEAD > has some (probably somewhat outdated) instructions for setting up a > Windows build environment. Do note that the specific (old) versions of > various softwares are important: newer versions will not work in most > cases. I may be able to provide some assistance in setting up a build > environment; please post questions encountered while setting up such a > development environment to openafs-de...@openafs.org. > > Thank you, > > Ben Kaduk > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 16:17:20 -0500 > From: Jason Edgecombe <ja...@rampaginggeek.com> > To: openafs-de...@openafs.org > Subject: [OpenAFS-devel] Window build slaves are disabled and removed > > Hi everyone, > > The only windows build slave has been disabled and removed from the OpenAFS > buildbot system. If anyone wants to stand up a replacement, please contact me. > > You may see the current buildbot status and variety of build slaves at > http://buildbot.openafs.org/waterfall > > Sincerely, > Jason > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-devel mailing list > openafs-de...@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-devel mailing list > openafs-de...@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info