[Adium-devl] Hardware plans

[Colin Barrett]

On Aug 19, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

>> One thing that sounds nifty to me is a
>> custom build maker. You'd submit (email?) a patch to the server, and
>> it generates a build and sends the download link back.
> Colin wrote:
>> Buildbot actually has this functionality built in :)
>
> That's a good idea, and cool that buildbot can do it.  Out of  
> curiosity, what does the workflow look like?

http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/manual-0.7.5.html#try

Requires a bit of setup, but the basic workflow on the developer side  
is to have the buildbot client installed, and then do "buildbot try."  
It looks like it makes a diff against your entire current repository,  
which seems less than optimal. I'll try to find out if it's easy or  
hard to specify a la SVN commit which directories to create the patch  
against. (Guessing pretty easy).

On eof the nice things about buildbot is that it's pretty easy to  
hack. Our L10n guy has been hacking and adminning buildbot to run  
tests on all the various translation repackaging and such. It's also  
fairly flexible, AIUI.

>> I don't think we have any call for multiple XServe machines.  A  
>> mini alongside the XServe at some point in the future, perhaps  
>> running 10.4, could be good.  More machines is more administrative  
>> hassle and more potential maintenance... and the XServe is going to  
>> far outperform multiple Minis, I think, though I don't have hard  
>> numbers on that.

Do we have the fat loots large enough to get a mini now, set it up and  
run 10.4 on it, get used to running all this stuff, and then when 10.5  
and new Xserves come out, throw down for an Xserve?

Starting small seems like it would be the best approach for now.

-Colin
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