Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Buildbot for qemu.git/master

[Alexander Graf]

On 07.02.2011, at 22:18, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 20:32:06 +0000
>> Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Here is the buildbot.  It currently has a debian-x86_64 slave building
>>> qemu.git/master every 24 hours:
>>> http://buildbot.vmsplice.net/
>> 
>> Nice, what about also building maintainers' branches, such as the block one?
> 
> That's a nice idea because it catches broken commits *before* they
> reach mainline.
> 
> The trade-off is that the number of people you trust to run code on
> your buildslave is increased to include subsystem maintainers.  I
> think that's acceptable but want to be upfront about it.

If they're subsystem maintainers that Anthony accepts pull requests from, it's 
just as good, no?

> The other consequence is that buildslaves have more work to do.
> That's great if this is a dedicated machine but not so great if the
> buildslave also shares resources with other applications.  If
> volunteers find their buildslaves are too busy we can split off
> "light" builders that don't run as many builds/tests.

I wouldn't worry about that too much :).


Alex