Re: [gnome-love] Tinderbox (automatic daily build) for GNOME

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

When I looked at buildbot last year it seemed like setting it up to
build multiple, consecutive, interdependent tarballs (i.e., gnome)
required both large amounts of code-hacking and the regular
regeneration of control files from jhbuild, was going to be a gigantic
pain. If support for multiple, interdependent tarballs has been added,
or someone feels like adding it, I agree that otherwise buildbot would
be ideal. You can get good results with simple 'jhbuild moduleset',
though.

Luis

On 3/27/06, Julien Gilli <julien gilli wengo fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> On 3/26/06, Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
> > Proposal
> > --------
> >
> > jhbuild has already the functionality to automatically build GNOME and
> > generate an output report in HTML (This is called tinderbox mode). To
> > improve the quality of GNOME (i.e. it will be be able to build
> > completely more often) there should be machine which builds gnome
> > continually and shows the build reports at for example
> > http://buildstatus.gnome.org/
> >
> > Maintainers, developers etc. can check over there if modules build. The
> > first version could be quite simple just a script that repeatedly calls
> > jhbuild in tinderbox mode and outputs the results on a webserver.
>
> I find this idea very useful. However, regarding the way to achieve it, may
> i suggest to evaluate the use of buildbot (see http://buildbot.sf.net/ ) ?
> We use it for our software project ( http://www.openwengo.org/ ), and it's
> very promising.
>
> If you're interested, I can share with you the experience I had so far using
> buildbot.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Julien Gilli