On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:53 PM, András Murányi wrote:

2010/6/27 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>

On Jun 25, 2010, at 11:59 AM, András Murányi wrote:

2010/6/10 András Murányi <muranyia@gmail.com>

2010/6/10 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>

and its not 2010-06-10 in NYC yet :)

.hc

But in Moscow it is, so the script could make space for the following day's harvest too.

Hello HC,

still frequent failures because of the non existing directory. I'm serious - if you want to give a chance to uploaders from 'earlier' time zones than NYC you got to have the directory created earlier.... (just imagine Japan guys, they'd have a crazy short time frame to upload with the current setup)
BTW can we file bugs against the autobuild system on SF? I suppose not...

Andras

IMHO, the auto-build scripts are a big kludge, so I don't want to spend more time on them. And did the bulk of writing them. :) We should use something like buildbot, but no one has set it up yet. If you are interested, that would be a great project to take on.

.hc

Sounds cool. I'd be interested in picking up this project if you can help me with the things i'm not so good at: the first is platforms.
Buildbot seems something web-centered, and needs Twisted on the clients too. Twisted is installed by default with Ubuntu and MacOSX 10.5+, available for Windows and the rest goes from source. This means, at a first glance, that Mac 10.4, Fedora and every other Linux than Ubuntu, will need Twisted to be built or prebuilt, and i'm not sure about 64-bit platforms and PPC. Python will be needed to, i suppose it's more widely available.
What do you think?

Andras

I think we can get twisted installed on 10.4 using Fink. Its included in Debian too. We'll need to install it manually on Windows, or however appropriate. That said, I am not married to buildbot, if you want to take on this project, feel free to research other options. There are some that are Java-based for example. I just remember builtbot sounding like the best back when I looked into it.