On 07.02.2011, at 22:18, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul...@redhat.com> > wrote: >> On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 20:32:06 +0000 >> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Here is the buildbot. It currently has a debian-x86_64 slave building >>> qemu.git/master every 24 hours: >>> http://buildbot.vmsplice.net/ >> >> Nice, what about also building maintainers' branches, such as the block one? > > That's a nice idea because it catches broken commits *before* they > reach mainline. > > The trade-off is that the number of people you trust to run code on > your buildslave is increased to include subsystem maintainers. I > think that's acceptable but want to be upfront about it.
If they're subsystem maintainers that Anthony accepts pull requests from, it's just as good, no? > The other consequence is that buildslaves have more work to do. > That's great if this is a dedicated machine but not so great if the > buildslave also shares resources with other applications. If > volunteers find their buildslaves are too busy we can split off > "light" builders that don't run as many builds/tests. I wouldn't worry about that too much :). Alex
