Announcing the IcedTea buildbot

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 10:51 Tue 22 Feb     , Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 21:44 +0000, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > > Feedback on how we can make this buildbot setup more productive for
> > > anybody hacking on icedtea really appreciated.
> >
> > My immediate suggestion would be to provide testing of icedtea6-hg
> > (which builds against OpenJDK6 hg) and also the icedtea6-1.10 branch
> > which should appear later today.
> 
> The challenge with depending on openjdk trees is that I haven't figured
> out what the best way is to integrate openjdk forest updates. I assume
> we should just treat them as independent trees. Which brings us to the
> second challenge of filtering out update events for different trees.
> Currently we treat each repository directory name as separate branch and
> then filter on that. If we monitor/pull from different servers it might
> get a bit more tricky.
> 

The standard way is to treat them as individual trees now.  See the script
Kelly added to the jdk7 root (get_source.sh).

I'm not yet used to these automated build invocations via commits.  Our
hg builds just run nightly.  I think you'd want to monitor all the
trees (icedtea6-hg plus all OpenJDK6 ones) and rebuild if any change.

> It can be done for the various icedtea6 release branches, since they
> build against a fixed openjdk drop, but it would be nice to have fresh
> new slaves for them to not over commit the current build slaves. Do you
> have a spare machine to run release branch checks on?
> 

Not right now, and I don't have a dedicated net connection here
either, just a dynamic IPv4 from my ISP :-(

> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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