Re: Buildbot

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/31/2016 09:24 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> 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.

OK, contact me privately to discuss system types and available resources.

> 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).

I added some more info to the wiki page.

> >   * 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.

Yes, it would be good in a setting like this to display the test 
failures to stdout instead of only storing them in a log file.

Thanks!

jwe