Public Build Farm

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 20/08/2008, Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com> wrote:
> > 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
>

This might also be useful for testing IcedTea patches on proprietary
build systems like Solaris (uses Sun Studio) and Windows (uses Visual
Studio IIRC).
-- 
Andrew :-)

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