Public Build Farm

[Mark Reinhold]

> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:48:57 -0700
> From: Landon Fuller <landonf at bikemonkey.org>

> We just did the first import of the BSD OpenJDK sources, which
> includes support for three different operating systems (FreeBSD,
> OpenBSD, Darwin), on two architectures (x86-32, x86-64). This leaves a
> lot of room for toe-stepping between various developers.
> 
> What are people's thoughts on implementing an OpenJDK continual
> integration/build system using something like Buildbot or Hudson?
> 
> Is this something Sun / OpenJDK could host?

We can almost certainly host the master portion of such a system, so long
as it doesn't need a ton of server-side resources.

I don't have direct experience with either Hudson or Buildbot.  Does
anyone else?

> Does it make the most sense to have users to volunteer build servers?

Yes, I think so -- our meager capital budget is pretty much absorbed just
keeping the basic openjdk.java.net services up and running, so I don't
think Sun can fund the construction of a big build farm any time soon.

- Mark