Wow, awesome! Thanks to all involved in bringing this new infrastructure. So are we going to have continious builds of Geronimo using this? We use them over at where I work and they help a lot by constantly reporting the results of changes made to the codebase during the day. The builds are very fast too when looking at the start/end times :-)
Regards, Barry On 10/26/05, David Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since testing/building is a really hard thing in Geronimo and the > large community of projects surrounding it, Dain and I decided it was > time to take action and put our own $$ on the table to help. > Projects like Geronimo, OpenEJB and ActiveMQ have provided us with so > much opportunity, we saw this as a way to give back on a very > personal level. We went out and purchased four servers on our own > dime that we are dedicating to all the projects that comprise > Geronimo. The focus is on providing the large community of > committers on the various projects the resources to test and build > and keep the Geronimo ecosystem running. > > We hope these four machines will be the start of something bigger. > When I close my eyes and think big, I see a large federation > consisting of smaller groups of machines from individuals and > companies sharing some common building/testing infrastructure, open > to and co-maintained by members of the community projects, building > all our code all the time and testing it on every variety of OS, VM > and Database imaginable.... > > We're not there yet. Baby steps. To date I've written a lot of > scripts to do builds, nightly tests with 6 MB emails that tick people > off, unstable builds, official releases, publish jars ... you name > it. Keeping that kind of stuff running a real trick. Other people > have cobbled up some stuff for themselves as well. For the immediate > time-frame, I hope that we can at least use these machines to keep > our various projects built on a regular basis with jars published > using tools we setup and maintain as a community. We sure need it, > releases are too painful. > > With that said, meet the family: > > stan.gbuild.org > kyle.gbuild.org > kenny.gbuild.org > cartman.build.org > > Stan and Kenny are mine, Kyle and Cartman are Dain's. I picked the > domain cause it sounded fun and the machine names for the same > reason. All four boxes are Pentium Dual Core 830s (3.0GHz/2X1MB > Cache, 800MHz FSB), with 2GB RAM and 80GB drives. Accounts available > to committers of Geronimo, OpenEJB, ActiveMQ, ActiveIO and other > Geronimo-related projects upon request. > > I've setup a Continuum install and have some of the projects running > in it now: > > http://ci.gbuild.org/continuum/servlet/continuum > > Huge thanks are in order: > > - Dain Sundstrom for not even flinching when the idea when from > "hey lets buy a box" to "hey let's buy four boxes." > > - Simula Labs (http://www.simulalabs.com/) for donating hosting > for the four boxes. > > - Mergere (http://www.mergere.com/) for helping me setup > Continuum to run our builds. > > > Immediate needs: > > - Some help setting up LDAP for user/group accounts across the > four boxes. > - Help adding more projects to continuum > - Help converting existing projects in continuum to not be "shell > projects" in continuum's eyes. > - Help getting an unstable build script going again. > - Converting anything bash-like to jelly or something m2 supported. > - More boxes? > - Anything you can think of.... > > > -David >
