2009/10/30 C. Titus Brown <ctb@msu.edu>:
As a counter-offer: Given remote access to however many Windows VMs you want to provide, I'll get them up and running with buildslaves on them. If that requires software such as Visual Studio, I have copies via the MSDN licenses that I am happy to provide.
I, too, have MSDN licenses, and I have functioning build environments on all of the VMs (I think -- I've only tested Win XP currently:
http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/python/detail?result_key=8276
OK, so I guess it's just setting the buildbot stuff up.
I also have an OS X 10.5 machine that I can let you into through a firewall; it's building Python 2.7 quite nicely:
http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/python/detail?result_key=8229
Sorry, I've no experience with OS X at all.
Once things are up and running, I'll be prepared to do basic care and feeding of the buildslave, but as my time is limited, it would be nice if others would pitch in to help.
I would be somewhat unhappy about giving more than three or four people admin access, but am prepared to lie back and think of England.
Greetings from England... :-) I doubt it'll be a huge issue, I just didn't want to end up doing nothing more than delivering 5 more red boxes on the buildbot status page. We can see how it goes. I just think that maintaining the buildbots as more of a community effort means that there's a better chance of issues being fixed quickly. Paul.