Re: [PD-dev] Raising ~250 USD for the Pd build farm? (was Re: buildbot or some other proper build automation)

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 21:10 +0200, András Murányi wrote:

    >         >         > so... (tada.wav) Vanilla builds alrite
    >         >         > on one slave. Nest step would be
    >         >         > uploading the file, this can be done
    >         >         > internally, just tell me please which
    >         >         > file or directory is the actual build?
    >         >         > And... how do we make a package with the
    >         >         > Vanilla source? Sorry I never built it
    >         >         > myself.
    >         >         > Some more questions that came up
    >         >         > meanwhile: Shall we update or copy the
    >         >         > source each time? (see
    >         >         > http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/latest/Source-Checkout.html) Do we need --enable-jack to configure Vanilla (after autogen)?
    >         >         > 
    >         >         > Andras
    >         >         > 
    >         >         >         
    >         >         
    >         >         
    >         >         The way that this would be super useful is
    >         >         if buildbot builds after every commit to
    >         >         SVN or git.  It looks like SVN polling
    >         >         support is built-in
    >         >         
    >         >         
    >         >         http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/0.7.12/#SVNPoller
    >         >         
    >         >         
    >         >         For git, it supports checkout, but there
    >         >         are some external scripts for polling:
    >         >         
    >         >         
    >         >         http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/0.7.12/#Git
    >         >         http://stackoverflow.com/questions/645430/have-buildbot-poll-a-git-repository-for-new-commits
    >         >         http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/130
    >         >         
    >         >         
    >         >         .hc
    >         >         
    >         > 
    >         > yes, git is more cumbersome when it comes to
    >         > polling, so i will work this out with daily builds
    >         > and see the polling stuff after. the older
    >         > buildbot version also has some limitations in this
    >         > direction.
    >         
    >         
    >         I think we can start with SVN since that should be
    >         easier.  If that works nicely, then we can struggle
    >         to get git polling working.  
    > 
    > Alrite. My box may fall out then, because i cannot handle so
    > many build cycles per day, or i'll try to find a way to
    > limit it to one build cycle on 'civilian' boxes like mine.
    > 


    Ah yes, that makes sense.  I was thinking the full time
    machines.

    > Or, we could raise money for a 64-bit box? 195 USD is not
    > much...
    > http://cgi.ebay.com/Sun-Microsystems-Sun-Fire-X2100-1-8Ghz-512-RAM-NEW-/140441798951?pt=COMP_EN_Servers
    > 


    Or a Dell Zino for 250 USD, its 64-bit and runs Debian/Ubuntu
    nicely. 


    http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/desktops/inspiron-zino-hd/pd.aspx?refid=inspiron-zino-hd&cs=19&s=dhs

Cool. The X2100 is basically identical to the Ultra20 i have, it's a Tyan main board with Opteron - and runs Debian/Ubuntu nicely :o)

How do we raise the funds? Is there an established way, or idea how to do it?

Andras

It would be nice to have a 64-bit Debian machine with a bunch of chroots, both 32-bit and 64-bit, Debian and Ubuntu. I suppose it might also be possible to have Fedora, Gentoo, etc. chroots if someone wanted to take that on.

A big part of that question is also: who is going to build and maintain this machine? I'm overloaded as it is.

.hc