Re: build.gnome.org status and future thoughts

[Iago Toral <itoral igalia com>]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:46 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:11:57AM +0200, Iago Toral wrote:
> > > I
> > > would start to ask and see if we could get those, if we are ready to add new slaves.
> > 
> > That's great, I'll try to contact Olav Vitters about the problem with
> > the firewall so all people working on providing slaves know if this can
> > be resolved soon or would take some more time.
> 
> The persons who admin that firewall want just one port instead of the 1
> port per module.

Ok, then we will need to do some development here, it will take some
time.

> The second problem was the diskspace. What kind of diskspace is needed?
> This for the slave + the master and whatever number of slaves you think
> it should have (this for long term).
> 
> So ehr.. maybe the space requirement for:
>  * buildmaster + 25 buildslaves + logs

Regarding HD space, as slaves would be hosted in external servers, that
should not be a big deal. We would only store logs with build results
while the actual build is hosted in the slaves. Currently, with just one
slave running the master occupies ~100MB (mostly logs).

To be safe, thinking that we might increase the time we keep logs stored
or the number of modules to build, etc... we can think of 500MB - 1GB
per slave.

>  * possible extra modules that might be added to GNOME (so perhaps add
>    certain percentage on top)

Sure, but I don't know how much we would need because of this maybe 10%
or 20%? That would make for 15-30 modules increase.

>  * buildslave on build.gnome.org machine

We already have this one running and it needs around 11GB. Thinking on
the possible module increase in the future I'd go for having around 20GB
for this.

> Could you also add the extra jhbuild scripts to jhbuild SVN? IIRC
> fpeters ok'd this.

Yeah, it is also in my ToDo list:
- Fix jhbuild update
- Rewrite checkout modes patch for jhbuild
- Make buildbot server work with just one external port
- Put gnome buildbot in jhbuild svn
- Review Ensonic's comments on August
- Sure I forget something :)

I'm having quite a big load after holidays at work, that's the reason
this is taking so long, but I hope I can get things started in a copuple
of weeks.

Iago