Subject: Re: Build farm
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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Date: 18 Nov 2003 17:12:26 -0500
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On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 14:36, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Maybe some sort of automated distributed build farm would be a good
> >>idea. Check out http://build.samba.org/about.html to see how samba does
> >>it (much lighter than the Mozilla tinderbox approach).
> >>
> >>We wouldn't need to be as intensive as they appear to be - maybe a once
> >>or twice a day download and test run would do the trick, but it could
> >>pick up lots of breakage fairly quickly.
> >>
> >>That is not to say that more intensive testing isn't also needed on
> >>occasion.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Check the archives on this, as its been hashed out already once at least
> >... I think the big issue/problem is that nobody seems able (or wants) to
> >come up with a script that could be setup in cron on machines to do this
> >... something simple that would dump the output to a log file and, if
> >regression tests failed, email'd the machine owner that it needs to be
> >checked would do, I would think ...
> >
> 
> If there's general interest I'll try to cook something up. (This kind of stuff is right up my alley). I'd prefer some automated display of results, though. A simple CGI script should be all that's required for that.
> 

look in the tools directory of cvs, i swear Bruce checked in a script he
uses for similar tasks..

Robert Treat
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