JavaOne Talk

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Andrew,

thank you for pointing us to 'BuildBot'.
I didn't knew this continuous integration system but from what I've
just read, it sounds very interesting.

On their home page they state that BuildBot slaves can run behind
firewalls which would be great for us because we're indeed behind a
firewall. So how does this actually work: does the build slave poll
the Buildmaster trough a standard protocol like HTTP/HTTPS? I think
HTTP/HTTPS is the only protocol which passes our firewall and all the
connections have to initiated from within the firewall.

And more specifically, will the BuildBot slave be notified by the
Buildmaster whenever a certain repository changes and then the slave
rebuilds the repository and uploads the build results to the
Buildmaster? Or will the slave poll the source repositories directly?

Regards,
Volker

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Following on from the PPC/AIX talk at JavaOne (which I found very
> interesting - thanks), I thought I'd point out that we have a buildbot
> setup here:
>
> http://builder.classpath.org/icedtea/buildbot/
>
> which includes the status and build logs for our builds.  This gets
> triggered to do a new build when a commit is made to IcedTea.
>
> I've CCed Mark Wielaard who did a great job of setting all this up
> and knows a lot more about it than I do.  Maybe we can look at linking
> your builds into this as build slaves at some point.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Andrew :)
>
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