[Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Anthony Baxter wrote:
> FWIW, I have an older box running Ubuntu 05.10 that spends most of 
> it's days pining for stuff to do (at the moment, it does DHCP and DNS 
> for the house. Yes, I know I have too many damn computers here). I 
> can set up a buildbot on it easily enough. It's something like a 
> 600MHz P3 or something. Is it going to be useful to have this in the 
> mix? 

With the gentoo installation, I think we have "enough" linux for the
moment. Somebody noticed that the Waterfall view of buildbot quickly
becomes unreadable if there are too many builds.

> Heck, there's a pile of 500MHz P3s sitting here that I could drop a 
> random free unix onto if someone wants to nominate something that's
>  
> a) useful
> b) not a total pain in the clacker to install. 

For a), I think one of the BSDs might be useful. Whether they qualify
for b), I don't know.

Regards,
Martin