[Pythonmac-SIG] get an OS X buildbot into the "stable" set

[Bill Janssen]

Dan Rabin <daniel.e.rabin+reply at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do we need 10.5 and powerpc coverage for python.org purposes, or is latest
> OS/current machines enough?

Right now, I've got as many PPC 10.4 and 10.5 machines as we need.  We
could use Intel Core 2 Duo (or better) machines running Leopard, and
Snow Leopard.  Our current Intel OS X buildbot is a Core Duo (so no
64-bit) Mac Mini running Tiger.

We also can't make them "stable" unless this is a kind of long-term 24x7
commitment, so machines already running as servers and unlikely to be
decommissioned in the near future would be good.

Bill

> 
>   -- Dan Rabin
> 
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> 
> > Shashwat Anand <anand.shashwat at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have Intel machine (2.53 GhZ, 4gb Ram) with Snow Leopard running on
> > > it and the system is 'ON' 24x7 with an average uptime of 1 month. I
> > > guess I can use mine to run the buildbots.
> >
> > That sounds great!  Just install the buildbot software (see
> > http://wiki.python.org/moin/BuildBot "Installing a build slave" for
> > instructions), then send a note to Martin for a buildbot name.  You can
> > use the system Twisted and system Python to run buildbot.
> >
> > You have to look at the buildbot machine every week or so to see if
> > there are hanging tests you might want to kill manually.  I'm not sure
> > why the regression testing software doesn't time out after a day or so,
> > but it doesn't.  Use "ps auxww | grep regrtest" to identify tests.
> >
> > Bill
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