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?
 We should move this discussion to pd-dev so its archived and others can contribute/learn/follow.  I hope you don't mind, I cc'ed pd-dev.
  
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.
  
.hc