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["John Carr" <john carr unrouted co uk>]

Hi all

What is the current status of the jhbuild buildbot project? What's the
best way to get involved? I'd been following it for a while but
haven't heard much about it recently. I noticed the sid slave has come
back online and thought it was time to come out from under a rock...

My main aim has been to try and reduce slave deployment to as close to
this as possible:

jhbuild build jhbuildbot-master
<tweak-config> (as little as possible...)
jhbuild run "slave start"

On the way I switched to using buildbot 0.7.7, added some autotools
foo to the scripts so jhbuild can work its magic on them, moved lots
of code to site-packages/jhbuildbot and other piddly things. I'm eager
to finish migrating to buildbot 0.7.7 (for now, i use html.py from
buildbot 0.7.5 so that the web frontend still mostly works) and to
look at not needing to open a port for each project that is added to
the setup. But obviously I don't want to duplicate effort...

I've got some basic notes here:
http://live.gnome.org/JohnCarr/Jhbuildbot

If anyone wants to talk about what i've been doing, I'm Jc2k in #build-brigade.

John