[Adium-devl] Buildbot is live!

[Colin Barrett]

On Nov 11, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Nov 11, 2007, at 12:32:29, timber at lava.net wrote:
>> - A website with information about builds (such as a timeline of  
>> changes and resulting builds) at http://duck.adiumx.com:8080.
>
> Can we get http://builds.adiumx.com/ to forward here?

Was thinking buildbot.adiumx.com , rather than "builds", since the  
builds it produces aren't downloadable.

Thought we could get it doing that :)

>> - Perhaps email devl when the tree begins to fail? That's a rather  
>> important event, but it could get a bit spammy. We'll have to see  
>> how often the tree actually breaks.
>
> Infrequently, considering how little test coverage we have. ;)

It can also fail when the tree fails to compile.

Getting the ASUnit tests on there will also be helpful for testing  
some basic functionality, though some automation issues need to be  
considered there. Maybe a testing service a la Stress Test?

> Long-term, I suggest making a new mailing list for this: bustage at adiumx.com 
> . We should subscribe all developers to it, and open it up for  
> anyone else to subscribe to.
>
> My reasoning is that all developers should receive any failure  
> emails and have the option to act on them, but everybody else on  
> this list—the interested observers who are not developers—can stay  
> out if they want. I suggest opening it for subscriptions by the  
> public so that patch contributors can jump on fixing it if possible.

Sounds great. I'll look into creating that mailing list, if there are  
no objections. Hopefully I can get the IRC bot announcing this same  
sort of information.


Speaking of, do developers who have gotten the buildbot messages think  
they're useful (broken link fix coming soon)? Should it only email you  
if a build failed? I think getting a notification from buildbot  
regardless might be handy. Remember, it only does a build after there  
have been no checkins for 5 minutes (a configurable number)