build.gnome.org status and future thoughts

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

bho does not look that good right now. All the modules show
"jhbuild updateone: unknown repository type hg"
Any idea what wrong?

A while ago, when it was working I had a look at the unit-tests of some modules.
It appeared that the RHEL5 server had not libcheck installed. Atleast for
gstreamer no check based tests were build.

Speaking of the tests. How does bgo figure out that tests are unit-tests. Does
it only rely on the output. The reason I am asking - gtk-doc cvs (really soon to
be released as 1.9) can run docs-sanity checks during make check. Its dead easy
to activate and would just don't do anything on old gtk-docs. The best - the
output looks like check tests.
I have a simillar test for po-status (translations), which I would try to get
into intltool it b.g.o could pick up the output.

Finally I wonder if it is okay to get more build slaves. Wouldn't it be good to
make a page on l.g.o that gives info, how to setup a b.g.o build slave and whom
to contact to conenct it. A link to this page could on the top-left of
http://build.gnome.org/. I would like to see slaves for opensuse / ubuntu. I
would start to ask and see if we could get those, if we are ready to add new slaves.

Enough for now.

Stefan