Re: Buildbot

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 19:39:14 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> If you are interested in running a buildbot slave for one of these systems,
> please reply to this message on the mailing list or contact me.  I would
> also be happy to offload some of the CPU cycles required for building the
> various configurations that I'm currently handling.

I'm interested in helping out, running one or more builders.

I think it would be good to summarize the instructions for how to
install and configure buildbot on the wiki (I can help with that also if
you can tell me how to set it up).

>   * Set up a slave running on a Windows system that can fetch copies of
> Octave built with mxe-octave, install them, and run the test suite.
> 
>   * Properly filter the test results.  Currently the test step succeeds if
> it exits with zero status.  There is no check on the number of test
> failures.

This looks related to https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8963 that I have
partially working.

-- 
mike