Re: build.gnome.org

[Frederic Peters <fpeters 0d be>]

Hi Jeff,

> What do you think about using 'build.gnome.org' as the canonical name for
> JhAutobuild, and perhaps running the controller one of the GNOME servers?
> Blessing it (or *something*) as our official build farm will increase the
> support it will get and thus, its relevance to GNOME developers.

Sergio Villar Senin has been working to use Mozilla Tinderbox to build
GNOME (see [1]), I wouldn't want him to think his efforts wasted by
this blessing.

Unfortunately his work is currently not compatible with jhautobuild
(jhautobuild works with long jhbuild builds while he makes lots of
small jhbuild calls).  It would be great to have his tinderbox setup
report to jhautobuild.  I'm cc'ing him.

Apart from that I would be quite happy to see build.gnome.org use
jhautobuild and getting more publicity.

The DNS change is no problem, I actually already changed our Apache
configuration to have build.gnome.org as ServerAlias.

As for running it off one the GNOME servers I am not totally sure for
the moment since I'm still frequently rolling out changes.  Anyway I
am already producing Debian packages for installation so I wouldn't
mind publishing them somewhere so they can be tested by the GNOME
sysadmin team (just did it [2]).


> Thanks, it's awesome work. :-)

Thanks, it is appreciated :)


        Frederic


[1] http://tinderbox.fisterra.org/
[2] http://jhbuild.bxlug.be/packages/