[Python-Dev] Community buildbots -- reprise

Grig Gheorghiu grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 20:16:00 CEST 2006


On 7/22/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>
> Grig Gheorghiu wrote:
> >     As I said earlier: If you need some kind of post-commit
> >     trigger on the python repository to trigger a build, just
> >     let me know. We currently use a more-or-less plain
> >     svn_buildbot.py to trigger our own builds.
> >
> > Wouldn't that put too much of a burden on the python core build system?
> > It would have to be aware of all the buildslaves running specific
> projects.
>
> If there is a single "community buildbot", then no. In any case, it's
> primarily administrative overhead, not so much cycles. python.org does
> so many things simultaneously, making it trigger an additional build
> remotely doesn't hurt.
>
> > I was thinking about having a dedicated buildmaster machine, such as the
> > one Neal says he already has, and configure that machine to coordinate a
> > small army of buildslaves which will be contributed for people
> > interested in this effort.
>
> Right. You still need to find out when to rebuild, and getting triggers
> from the source repositories is likely the easiest solution.



I see....I guess I was thinking about building periodically (every X hours
or at time Y) as opposed to getting svn triggers on each check-in. But if,
as you're saying, the overhead on python.org is not too great, we can do
what you suggested.

Grig


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