I’m on this.  We have most of the infrastructure up, it’s just a matter of 
tying up some ends before we get regular reports.
I’ll let you folks know more about the bot once it is doing something.

Sean

> On Nov 19, 2014, at 3:03 PM, jing...@apple.com wrote:
> 
> I think Sean & Adrian are working on this.  Sean's out today, but I'll ask 
> him tomorrow.
> 
> Jim
> 
>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Reid mentioned watching the bots we already have.  Is there any way to get a 
>> Mac bot on there?  Do you guys already have one that I'm not aware of that 
>> maybe just needs to be hooked up?
>> 
>> On Wed Nov 19 2014 at 2:58:48 PM <jing...@apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Reid Kleckner <r...@google.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't think Chromium's dependency rolling model is a good fit for the way 
>>> that LLDB should consume Clang/LLVM.
>>> 
>>> I would say that Chromium is to Blink as LLDB is to Clang. Both are run 
>>> under the same parent umbrella project. However, I've been lead to 
>>> understand that Blink rolls are a huge pain, and Chromium is actively 
>>> moving away from this model by attempting to merge the repositories.
>>> 
>>> I'm not proposing merging LLDB and Clang repos, but I would say that we 
>>> should consider them part of the same project. If Clang changes break LLDB, 
>>> then there is a burden on the Clang developer to to fix LLDB promptly or 
>>> find someone with more LLDB knowledge if the fix isn't trivial. This is the 
>>> relationship that Clang already has to LLVM. It's OK for LLVM to break 
>>> Clang, and it should be OK for Clang to break LLDB, so long as it's fixed 
>>> promptly. If the fix isn't prompt, it's OK to start reverting to get back 
>>> to green.
>>> 
>>> In short, what I really think we need is:
>>> - More stable LLDB tests with more signal and less noise
>>> - More visibility into LLDB build and test failures for Clang and LLVM 
>>> developers
>>> 
>>> Rather than spending time managing blessed revisions, I would rather spend 
>>> resources watching the bots we already have 
>>> (http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/lldb-x86_64-debian-clang, 
>>> http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/lldb-x86_64-freebsd) and pinging 
>>> developers on email and IRC to fix regressions. In other words, take a 
>>> harder stance on breakage.
>>> 
>>> Does that seem reasonable?
>> 
>> +1
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Vince Harron <vhar...@google.com> wrote:
>>> We completely agree that there should be a continuous build with 
>>> top-of-everything.
>>> 
>>> We're looking to *add* a continuous lldb build with the curated versions of 
>>> llvm/clang.  I think this will help lldb developers with the signal to 
>>> noise ratio.  (Separating their breaks from clang/llvm breaks)  I can 
>>> probably get some CPU time for this new build.
>>> 
>>> Chromium does a similar thing with their multitude of open source 
>>> dependencies.  Siva was explaining to me that there is a engineer 
>>> "gardener" that updates the working versions file daily (we could do 
>>> weekly) by looking for successful "top-of-everything" builds.  The 
>>> "gardener" responsibility is handed off in rotation.
>>> 
>>> Why don't we do this as a trial.  We will setup the hardware (linux at 
>>> least) and take responsibility for gardening.  We would like our build 
>>> slave to be triggered by the llvm buildbot master.
>>> 
>>> If there is value in this to the community, we'll expand the gardening 
>>> responsibilities.  We can also update the public lldb build instructions to 
>>> use the curated build script.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Vince
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