Re: Build sheriffs for GNOME

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi Alberto;

you're asking for a try server, which is a fairly complex piece of machinery.

Mozilla has one, based on buildbot; it may be possible to have a
machine dedicated to try builds, but that's not what Continuous does,
and it would not be what Continuous aims to be.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.


On 22 January 2016 at 13:13, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org> wrote:
> Another thing that would be really useful in this line is to be able to
> submit specific branches for testing. Say I'm working on wip/foobar to avoid
> breaking master, and before pulling that stuff from master I want to make
> sure I won't break the builds.
>
> Is anything like this possible at all?
>
> 2016-01-22 13:03 GMT+00:00 Simon McVittie <simon mcvittie collabora co uk>:
> > On 21/01/16 14:54, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > > In short, I want to ensure that GNOME maintainers become
> > > a bit more proactive in giving a crap about their modules breaking on
> > > something that is not their own computers.
> >
> > Is there a way in which contributors/maintainers can reproduce something
> > equivalent to what Continuous would build (or a large enough subset of
> > the dependency stack to reach their packages), in a local virtual
> > machine where they can debug issues interactively?
> >
> > In the autobuild systems that I've worked with, I've found that the key
> > feature that makes them most useful is to avoid "magic" centralized
> > infrastructure that only a few sysadmins/maintainers can access.
> >
> > For instance, one of the things I really like about Debian's autopkgtest
> > initiative (a package-oriented and potentially system-level equivalent
> > of GNOME installed-tests) is that it's quite well-documented how to get
> > a local mirror of the environment in which tests are run on the official
> > infrastructure[1] and how to get something basically equivalent as a
> > virtual machine image[2].
> >
> > [1] https://ci.debian.net/doc/file.MAINTAINERS.html
> > [2] http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=adt-virt-qemu
> >
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> Alberto Ruiz
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