Re: [GSoC] Rewrite Hydra to be more integrated with Guix.

2016-03-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > In the end, I think it would be interesting to not use the offload approach, > where the offloading machine sends all inputs to the build machine, which > returns the result, so that more or less the complete set of binary packages > flows along the tree of build machines

Re: [GSoC] Rewrite Hydra to be more integrated with Guix.

2016-03-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, over some lunch I have been chatting with a famous Debian developer to under- stand a bit how Debian handles their build process. What is interesting with their approach is that the master manages a queue of packages to be built, and the slaves connect to fetch work when they are ready (for

Re: [GSoC] Rewrite Hydra to be more integrated with Guix.

2016-03-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > For example, the Hydra API does not provide a way to search for jobs as > we can do with web interface like this: > > http://hydra.gnu.org/search?query=emacs > > Also there is no way to get any info on evaluations, so it's not > possible to compare evals: i.e., to see what

[GSoC] Rewrite Hydra to be more integrated with Guix.

2016-03-19 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello fellow Guix Hackers, Being currently a student which is due to make an internship, I intend to turn this boring administrative injunction into an opportunity to contribute to Guix by applying to Google Summer of Code which is considered as an internship by University of Bordeaux standards.

Re: [GSoC] Rewrite Hydra to be more integrated with Guix.

2016-03-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > Mathieu Lirzin (2016-03-18 00:38 +0300) wrote: [...] >> This GSoC will not likely succeed in implementing every features Hydra >> is currently providing. The objective is rather to create the basis >> which will then allow further developpements to overcomes the present >>

Re: [GSoC] Rewrite Hydra to be more integrated with Guix.

2016-03-19 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-18 23:55 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Mathieu Lirzin (2016-03-18 00:38 +0300) wrote: > > [...] > >>> This GSoC will not likely succeed in implementing every features Hydra >>> is currently providing. The objective is rather to create the basis >>> which will t

Re: [GSoC] Rewrite Hydra to be more integrated with Guix.

2016-03-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > This GSoC will not likely succeed in implementing every features Hydra > is currently providing. The objective is rather to create the basis > which will then allow further developpements to overcomes the present > difficulties. To achieve this the following miles

Re: [GSoC] Rewrite Hydra to be more integrated with Guix.

2016-03-18 Thread Alex Kost
Mathieu Lirzin (2016-03-18 00:38 +0300) wrote: > Hello fellow Guix Hackers, > > Being currently a student which is due to make an internship, I intend > to turn this boring administrative injunction into an opportunity to > contribute to Guix by applying to Google Summer of Code which is > conside