JavaOne Talk

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 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?
> 

I'll give Mark a prod to reply in detail, as he knows more about these
are setup than I do.

I'm just the poor soul who gets e-mailed all the time when the build breaks...

> 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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> 

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Andrew :)

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