I may become involved..it depends upon success of an ongoing business/project gig discussion that I am currently in with a startup.. The start up at some point would be relying upon those nightly builds.
How different is the build scripts/receipes from bitbake? On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > > A few folk are starting to build the infrastructure for a nightly build > farm, to extend Al Sutton's groundbreaking work on creating downloadable > SDKs out of the public Android repositories. > > It will take some time for us to get everything together, including > working out the kinks in the Android development process itself -- see > David Turner's post on this thread: > > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/1e5d4f6dfef96c70 > > What we are looking for now are two types of volunteers: > > 1. If you would like to contribute time -- personal and CPU -- to > building Android itself, sign up to operate a build slave. This > basically means you'll provide a PC or VPS that can build Android from > the latest sources on demand. "On demand" will be nightly, more or less. > The more volunteers we get, the fewer times any given build machine will > need to actually be doing a build. > > 2. If you are interested in running the buildmaster -- a BuildBot or > Hudson server that coordinates the builds and publishes their results -- > sign up for that. > > If nobody else signs up, I will run the buildmaster on the CommonsWare > slice at Slicehost, and I will provide an initial build slave here at > CommonsWare HQ. However, we could really use more build slaves. Also, > I'm a rookie at running a buildmaster -- to paraphrase Hobbes, my work > on that will be nasty, brutish, and slow. If you're better at it and > want to take on that task, sign up! > > Eventually, of course, we'll need people to play with the build results, > but right now, a buildmaster and build slaves are what's needed. > > If you are interested in either role, or if you think there is some > other near-term role you'd like to play in this effort, reply on this > thread or contact me off-list, and let me know specifically what you'd > like to do. > > Thanks for everyone who's provided advice to me on this topic so far, > and thanks in advance for everyone who joins the build squad! > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
