Snakebite buildbot slaves: opinions wanted

Howdy,
I'm as ready as I'll ever be -- it's time to start setting up some
Python buildbot slaves on Snakebite. I wanted to reach out and see
if anyone had any particularly strong opinions on how the slaves
should be set up.
We've got two main options: use the existing Python buildbot master
and just create new slaves for Snakebite hosts, or, set up a new
Snakebite-specific buildbot master for now, keeping it completely
separate from the existing infrastructure.
I think for at least the first couple of months it's best to assume
the Snakebite slaves will be wildly unstable/unavailable, or at the
very least, that's how I'd like everyone to view them, just so expe-
ctations aren't set too high.
FWIW, I presented the same option to the Twisted folk, and they said
they'd prefer to use their existing buildbot master, claiming that
they're used to unreliable buildbots and false-positive e-mail noti-
fication, and noting that they have something similar to our own
'stable' buildbot view that slaves are promoted to once they've dem-
onstrated they're not falling over every other commit.
(Additionally, we agreed that we could set up a 'snakebite' buildbot
view for all the Snakebite slaves, which has numerous benefits; we
could do this for Python as well.)
Thoughts?
Trent.

On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Trent Nelson wrote:
FWIW, I presented the same option to the Twisted folk, and they
said they'd prefer to use their existing buildbot master, claiming that they're used to unreliable buildbots and false-positive e-mail
noti- fication, and noting that they have something similar to our own 'stable' buildbot view that slaves are promoted to once they've
dem- onstrated they're not falling over every other commit.(Additionally, we agreed that we could set up a 'snakebite'
buildbot view for all the Snakebite slaves, which has numerous benefits; we could do this for Python as well.)
That seems like a wise precedence to follow. +1 for us doing the same.
-Barry

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:34:40PM +0000, Trent Nelson wrote:
I think for at least the first couple of months it's best to assume the Snakebite slaves will be wildly unstable/unavailable, or at the very least, that's how I'd like everyone to view them, just so expe- ctations aren't set too high.
Ugh, talk about jinxing things. I think an air conditioner has
failed in the lab, all the systems seemed to be well on their
way to melting :/
http://wiki.snakebite.org/ged-is-melting
I've powered everything down for now until someone @ MSU can take
a looksie. I don't want to risk any long-term heat damage.
*sigh*, ghetto server room strikes again.
Trent.
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Barry Warsaw
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Trent Nelson